You took a part of me that I really miss
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I keep askin' myself how long it can go on like this
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You told yourself a lie - that's alright, mama, I told myself one too
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I've tried to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
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You took the silver, you took the gold
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You left me standin' out in the cold
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People ask about you, I didn't tell them everything I knew
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Well, I've tried to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
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I'm driftin' in and out of dreamless sleep
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Throwin' all my memories in a ditch so deep
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Did so many things I never did intend to do
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Well, I've tried to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
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I need your love so bad, turn your lamp down low
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I need every bit of it for the places that I go
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Sometimes I wonder 'til it's just what it's all coming to
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Well, I've tried to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
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Well, I don't dare close my eyes and I don't dare wink
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Maybe in the next life I'll be able to hear myself think
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Feel like talkin' to somebody but I just don't know who
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Well, I've tried to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
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Yes, the last thing you said before ya hit the street
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Gonna find me a janitor to sweep me off my feet
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I said, "That's all right, mamma, you, you do what you gotta do"
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Well, I've tried to get closer, I'm still a million miles from you.
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Rock me, pretty baby, rock me all at once
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Rock me for a little while, rock me for a couple of months
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And I'll rock you too
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I'm tryin' to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
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Well, there's voices in the night tryin' to be heard
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I'm sittin' here listening to every mind-pollutin' word
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I know plenty of people put me up for a day or two
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Yes, I'm tryin' to get closer but I'm still a million miles from you.
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Million Miles
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Bonnie Raitt |