When you look through the lights to the stage
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You see the man of your dreams
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You think his life's full of parties and love
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But it's not what it seems
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If you could see in his room right now
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You'd see how much love is showed
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There's never really any romance on the road
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His forehead seems cut in two
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By the crease in his brown
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He chews his nails and he fidgets
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Just tryin' to settle on down
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The TV channels keep flippin'
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His adrenaline slowed
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There's never really any romance on the road, oh no
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There's never romance on the road
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Only frustration and overload
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He could fall in love but he'd never know
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For she's only riding and he's only hiding
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He's sure to ask but she won't say,"No"
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But there's never really any romance on the road
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He was up in the bar straight-backed
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Did you see him before?
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Did he sign you his name?
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Come with me, listenin' at his door
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Hear himself so drunk calling home
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Can't remember the code
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You know, there's never really any romance on the road
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Oh no, no, no
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He's held some beautiful girls in his arms
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But now he clutches his bunk
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For all the good that they're doing him now
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He might as well be a monk
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For his memories ain't worth a thing
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Till he's old and he's gone
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And his past never quite catches up
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The show's movin' on
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Did he say he kept a picture
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Of a blonde haired girl who'd been kind?
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When he was last home, his own daughter
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Brought it into his mind
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Maybe closing bars and jets
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Paid some debts that he owed
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But there's never really any romance on the road
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There's never romance on the road
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Only frustration and overload
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He's never learned a thing from the dust that blowed
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On stage for an hour, on a laser beam tower
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But you know he slept while the neon glowed
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There's never really any romance on the road
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There's never romance on the road
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Only frustration and overload
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He could fall in love but he'd never know
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For she's only riding and he's only hiding
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He's sure to ask but she won't say, "No"
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There's never really any romance on the road
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No Road Romance
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| The Who |
