They all smile
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They shake your hand
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They want to know your name
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Y ou sit in your mothers room
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Look through the window pane
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When they know you're not watching
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They talk behind your back
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They laugh about the lonliness
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Of your awkward attack
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Attack them in the fences
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Attack them in the schoolyard
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Wipe your sleeve across your head
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When the canons fire
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Someday, many years from here
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Where no one else can see
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You'll dig up the things they buried
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And finally set them free
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Finally, set them free
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Now free them from the schoolyard
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Free them from the lunch tray edge
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Free them from the canons inside your head
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I don't know why,
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But for some people
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An ordinary day
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Just rises up before them
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And it sweeps the past away
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And its a good Life
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From now on
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When I look back at you
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A good life,
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Look ahead
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The sky is almost blue
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The Evening Of My Best Day
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| Rickie Lee Jones |
