I'm going to rent myself a house
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In the shade of the freeway
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I'm going to pack my lunch in the morning
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And go to work each day
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And when the evening rolls around
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I'll go on home and lay my body down
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And when the morning light comes streaming in
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I'll get up and do it again
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Amen
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Say it again
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Amen
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I want to know what became of the changes
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We waited for love to bring
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Were they only the fitful dreams
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Of some greater awakening
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I've been aware of the time going by
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They say in the end it's the wink of an eye
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And when the morning light comes streaming in
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You'll get up and do it again
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Amen
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Caught between the longing for love
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And the struggle for the legal tender
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Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring
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And the junk man pounds his fender
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Where the veterans dream of the fight
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Fast asleep at the traffic light
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And the children solemnly wait
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For the ice cream vendor
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Out into the cool of the evening
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Strolls the Pretender
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He knows that all his hopes and dreams
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Begin and end there
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Ah the laughter of the lovers
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As they run through the night
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Leaving nothing for the others
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But to choose off and fight
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And tear at the world with all their might
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While the ships bearing their dreams
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Sail out of sight
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I'm going to find myself a girl
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Who can show me what laughter means
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And we'll fill in the missing colors
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In each other's paint-by-number dreams
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And then we'll put out dark glasses on
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And we'll make love until our strength is gone
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And when the morning light comes streaming in
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We'll get up and do it again
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Get it up again
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I'm going to be a happy idiot
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And struggle for the legal tender
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Where the ads take aim and lay their claim
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To the heart and the soul of the spender
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And believe in whatever may lie
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In those things that money can buy
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Thought true love could have been a contender
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Are you there?
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Say a prayer for the Pretender
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Who started out so young and strong
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Only to surrender
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The Pretender
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Jackson Browne |