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Love hurts. Love scars. Love and marks any heart, not tough nor strong enough to take a lot of pain. Take a lot of pain.
A compilation of classic Emmylou Harris songs featuring themes of heartbreak, love, longing, and freedom, with lyrics drawn from several tracks. Transcript is noisy with music and singing cues.
Key Takeaways
- This compilation showcases Emmylou Harris's range across heartbreak ballads, narrative songs, and spiritual themes.
- Love, loss, and longing are the dominant emotional threads throughout the selections.
- Recurring imagery of freedom, the road, and faith gives the collection thematic cohesion.
What the video covers
- The video is a 'Very Best of' compilation of Emmylou Harris recordings presented by Vintage Playback.
- Opening lyrics center on love hurting and scarring the heart, setting a melancholic tone.
- Several songs explore heartbreak and unrequited love, including lines about making believe someone still loves you while being left alone and blue.
- A recurring image of longing and faith appears through references to Abraham's bosom, saving grace, and seeing a beloved's face.
- A narrative ballad recounts a figure named Poncho, abandoned and fast like polished steel, who meets his end in the Mexican desert.
- Another story follows a lover who 'let him slip away' out of kindness, reflecting regret and resignation.
- Songs about restlessness and independence express a wish to run free, be the best, and avoid being tied down.
- Several passages reflect on lost love, tearful goodbyes, and a final day that brings misery and reflection.
- Religious imagery, including prayers, the Lord's book, and the Savior, recurs across multiple songs.
- The transcript is heavily fragmented by [music] and [singing] markers, so lyrics are partial and some song boundaries are unclear.
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Heat. Heat. Heat. My soul, I learn. Heat. Heat. Heat.
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Some of happiness, livefulness, togetherness. Some move themselves, I guess. But they're not fooling me. I know it isn't true.
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No, it isn't true. Love is just a lie made to
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Love [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [music] Heat. Heat. Love. [singing] [music] [music] [music] I don't want to hear love [singing] song.
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I got on this airplane just [music and singing] to fly. And I know there's light [music and singing] below me, but all that you can show me is [singing] a prayer in the [music] sky.
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And I don't want to hear a sad [singing] story full of heartbreak and desire.
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The last time I [singing and music] felt like this, I was in the wilderness [singing and music] and the canyon was on fire.
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And I stood on [music and singing] the mountain in the night and I watched it burn.
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I watched it [music] burn. I watched it burn. I would rock my soul [singing and music] in the bosom of Abraham.
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I would hold my [music and singing] life in his saving grace. I [music] would walk away from border to bling.
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If I thought I could see [music and singing] I could see your face [music] where you really got me this time.
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[music] And the hardest part [singing] is knowing God. [music] I've come to listen for the sound of the trucks as they move down [singing] on 95 and [music] pretend [singing] that it's the ocean [music] coming down [singing] to wash
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to Worship me. [music] Baby, do you know what I mean? I will run my [music] soul in the bosom of [singing] Abraham.
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I will hold [music] my life in his saving grace. I would walk all the way from [music and singing] Birmingham.
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If I thought I could [music] see I could see your face. [music] If I thought I could see I could [music] see your face.
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[music] making believe [singing] that you still love me. [music] It's [singing] leaving me alone [singing] and so blue.
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Still [singing] I'll always dream I'll never own you. [singing and music] Making me it's [singing and music] all I can do.
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[singing] can't hold you close when you're [singing] not [music] with me. You're somebody's [singing] love.
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[music] You'll never [singing] be mine. [music] Breathing [singing] me. [music] I'll spend my lifetime loving [singing] you [music] and [singing] making me [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] making you Leave [singing] me.
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I never feel but my [singing] happ. [singing] My plans for the [music] future will never come true.
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making me. [singing] What else can [music] I do? making me. [singing] [music] I'll spend my lifetime loving you and [music and singing] making me [music] Heat. Heat.
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[music] [music] Living [singing] on the road, my friend. is going to keep you free and clean.
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[music] Now you wear your [singing] skin like iron, your breasts [music] as hard as carosine.
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Weren't your m's only boy, [singing] but her favorite one it seemed. She began to [singing] cry when you said goodbye and sang into your [music and singing] dreams.
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Poncho [music and singing] was abandoned buzz. His horse was fast as polished steel. He wore his [music and singing] gun outside his pants for all the honest world to feel.
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Po met his [singing] match, you know, in the deserts [music] down in Mexico and nobody [singing] heard his dying words.
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[music] That's the way it goes. [music] Oh, better all I say. You could have had him any [singing] day.
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Only let him slip away. [singing] [music] Out of kindness [singing] I suppose. Left. He can't sing the blues [singing] all night long. like he used to the dust and my jo [music and singing] down south up and left his mouth
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daily for my love [singing] for a while where he got [singing and music] the bread to go.
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Ain't [singing] nobody know all the say [singing and music] could we only [singing] let him slip away kindness [singing and music] I suppose. Oh, heat heat.
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[music] [music] The poet's tell left his living in a [music and singing] cheap hotel.
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The desert's quiet and Cleveland's [music and singing] cold. And so the story ends were told.
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John needs your prayers true [music and singing] left. He only did what [singing] he had to do.
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And now he's grown more. [music] All I [singing] say could [music] have had anything.
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We only live away. [music] Our [singing] kind is our you [singing and music] could have anything.
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We only live for [music and singing] so long. out [singing] of kindness. I [music] suppose [music] [music] [singing] [music] I won't have the job. know I can be better. [singing] I can be good. [music] I can be any way that I feel one
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[singing and music] of these days. I'd be a woman that's dressed in black. [music] Be a [singing] hobo by the railroad track. I'll be gone like the wayward [singing] wind. One of these [music] days.
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One of these [singing] days it will soon be all over cut and dry. And I [singing] won't have this urge to go bottled [music] up inside.
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One of these [music and singing] days I'll look back and I'll say I'll [singing] let him die. [music] All somewhere on me I know there's peace of mind.
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[music] [music] [music] I [singing] might someday walk across this land, carrying the Lord's book in [singing] my hand, [music] going across the country, singing wild as I can one of these days.
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But I won't have trouble on [music and singing] my back. Couldn't like the devil a child.
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Got to shake [music and singing] him off of my back. One of these days.
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One of these [singing] days it will soon be over. And I won't [music and singing] have the search to go away in the sun. [music] One of these days [singing] I'll look back and I'll say [music] I left in time
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[singing] somewhere I know there's peace of mind. [music] It's going to be peace of mind for [music and singing] me.
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[music] [applause] [music] It's over. [music and singing] I love too [singing and music] late now.
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I found the king. His sweet love. No more shame. Now he's [music] gone. I'm alone. [singing] I was wrong. Should have gone. Took me home [music] on our [singing] last day.
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I search [music] for a simple way [music] to tell [singing] him what I had to say.
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[music] I kissed him, watched him walk. Set him free. Foolishly, [music] destiny misery traedy [singing] [music] on our last day.
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[music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [music] [music] from my trees. Crush the tears [singing] from walked away. [music] Didn't know that soon.
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Yes, [music] I was too young [singing] to realize. [music] Oh my see how much he [singing] [music] [singing] would always be on my mind [music] in my heart.
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I from the last [music] [music] [cheering] [music] [music] Well, I never to grown [singing] and I never told the line.
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No man is [singing] master [music] to me. I ain't that kind. I just put on my travel shoes. If you want to win, you just can't lose [singing] a time.
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Oh, stay behind. [music] Well, I was born to run to get ahead [singing] of the red.
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And all that I [music] wanted was to be the best just to feel free and be someone.
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[music] I was born to be fast. I was born [singing] to run. [music] Well, I take the chances sometimes you pay mistakes.
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But you don't get nothing unless you take [singing and music] the break. as dangerous as dynam mind. Sure. Made you feel nervous, but it makes you feel [music] all right. Made you feel all right.
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[music] Get ahead of [singing] the rain. [music] And all that I wanted was to be the best to feel free.
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[music] I was born. I was born. [music] [music] [music] Nobody going to make me do the things they by the time you figure it out yesterday.
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[music] But I only pray. Yeah. I want it today. I want [music] to run to get ahead of the rest.
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And [music] all that [singing] I wanted was to be the best to feel free.
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[music] I was born. I was born. [music] I was born to run. [music] [singing] And all I want to do is feel free.
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[music] I was born. [music and singing] I was born. [music] [music] Beneath still [music] There's a strong undertone.
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[music] The surface [singing] won't tell you what [music] the deep water knows. Darling, I'm [singing] safe.
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I know [singing] something's wrong beneath [singing] [music] still waters. Your love [music and singing] is gone.
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Even [singing] a fool could see that [singing] you will soon believe [music] in me.
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But each [music] and every [singing] heart must take its turn [music] and misery. And this [singing] time it's me [music] and I cry alone [music] beneath still [music] waters. [singing] Your love [music] is gone. [singing] [music] [music] [music]
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[music] Even a fool [singing] could see [music] that you'll soon believe [singing] in me. [music] But each and every [music and singing] heart must take its turn and misery. [music] And this [singing] time it's me [music] and I cry alone
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beneath [music and singing] the woods. [music] Your love is gone [singing] [music] beneath [singing] still water.
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[music] Your love is [music and singing] gone beneath still [singing] waters. Your love [singing] is [music] gone.
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[music] [music] If I could only [singing] win your love, [music] I'd make the most [singing] of everything. [music] I proudly wear your wedding ring. My heart would never stray would dream [singing and music] away.
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If I could only win your love. [music] I [singing] give my all to make it live.
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You'll never know [singing] how much I'd give. If I [music] could only win your love.
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Oh, [singing] how can I ever [music] say how I crave your love [singing] when you're gone?
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Oh, how [music] can I ever show how I [singing] burn inside when you hold me tight?
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If I could only win your love. I'd give my [singing] all to make it live. [music] You'll never know how much I'd give.
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[singing and music] If I could only win your love. [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] Oh, how [singing] [music] can I ever say how I crave love when [music] you're gone [singing] way. Oh, how can I ever show how I burn
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[music and singing] inside when you hold me tight? If I could only [music] win your love.
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I give my heart to make it through. You never [singing] know how much I'd give.
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If I could [music] only win you love [music] together again. My tears [singing] have stopped [music] falling.
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The [singing] long lonely night are not [singing] in [music] the key to my heart. [singing] you hold in your head [music] and nothing else matters cuz we're together [music] again.
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Together [singing] again. The grace scars are gone. [music] You're back [singing] in my [music] now [singing] where you are.
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[music] The love [singing] that we knew is living. [music and singing] And nothing [singing] cuz we're together [music and singing] again.
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[music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [music] [music] together again. [music] My [singing] tears have suff [music] [singing] [singing] [music] [singing] again.
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And nothing [singing] else [music] cuz we're together. [music] No, nothing else matters. [music] [singing] We're together again.
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[singing] [music] [music] When [singing] I saw you standing there on the street, I found [music] myself [singing] by your side.
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I started wanting you again. There's just no way [music and singing] to hide from that old loving you feeling again.
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[music] It's really [singing] got me reeling again. It only seems to stop to start [singing] all over again with you.
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[music] I remember how you [singing] always get that certain look in your [music] eyes.
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You're not easy to resist, [music] but I just walked on by loving [singing] you. Feeling the love.
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[music] It's really got me feeling again only seems to stop to start all over [singing] again. [music] Never [music] with [singing] you.
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We were alone. [music] We were too far. [singing] I gave my love. I wanted [singing] your heart with [music] yesterday.
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in the way. Maybe [singing] we still be together. [music] Sharing the love is feeling again.
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[music] He's really got me feeling again. [singing] And I'll start over again. loving [music] you feeling again.
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No matter how much I [music] try again [singing] you feeling it's taking such a long time to say [music] goodbye. [singing] [music] It's [singing] so hard to [music] do with this feeling [singing] you [music] [singing] feel again.
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Heat. [music] Heat. [singing] [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [music and singing] [singing] Yeah. Heat. [music] [music] To know [singing] know him [music] is to love love love [singing] him.
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Just [music] to see him smile makes [singing] my [music] life worthwhile. To know know [music] him is to love [singing] love love him. And I do.
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[music and singing] I'll be [singing and music] good to him. I'll bring love to him.
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Everyone [singing and music] says there'll come a day when I walk alongside [music] of him. Yes. Just to know him is [music] to [singing] love love love him. And I do. [singing and music] Why can't he [singing] see
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me? How [singing] [music] blind can he be? Someday [singing] he will see that he was made of me.
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Oh [singing] [music] [music] hey. [music] To know [singing] know him is to love love love him. Just [music] to see him smile.
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Makes [singing] my life worthwhile. To know know him is to love love love [singing] [music] him. And I do [music] [music] [music] [music] We came out west together with a common [music and singing] desire.
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evil we had that'll set the west coast on fire. [singing] Two months later got trouble in mind.
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Oh my baby boo got to leave [singing] me behind. But it's all right cuz it's midnight. I got two more bottles of wine.
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way [singing] there should turn my head [music] around. Seem like nothing just to put me down, but I ain't going to let it by me today.
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I've been working [singing] on too tired anyway, but it's all [music] right. I got two [singing] more bottles of wine.
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[music] Well, 1600 miles from the people I [singing] know. I've been doing all I can, but I'm totally [music and singing] sure. So, when I be in the sun [singing] all day, when I'm sweeping out a warehouse in West LA, but it's all
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[singing] right cuz [music] it's mine. I got two more bottles of wine. Heat. Heat.
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[music] I'm [singing] 1600 miles [music] of the people I know. I'm [singing] doing all I can without sh but I feel [music] the sun all day. But I'm sweeping out a [singing] warehouse in West Lake. It's all right. [music]
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I got two more [singing] bottles of wine. Yes, [music] it's all right cuz it's midnight. [singing] I got two more bottles of wine.
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This is all [music] right cuz it's midnight. Two more bottles of wine. [music] [music] [music] I [singing] am of hope [screaming] with hair and strange while traveling.
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through [singing] this world of war. Yeah, there's no sickness [singing] to our danger in that bright world [singing] to [music] a child.
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I'm going [singing] there to see my father. I'm going there no more. [singing] I'm only going overjoy. [music and singing] I'm only going over [singing and music] home.
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[music] [music] [music] [music] No [singing] dark clouds will head around [singing] me. I know my way is [music] rough and steep.
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Yeah. Beautious [singing] fields lie just before me where [singing] God redeemed the angels. [music] I'm going there to see [singing] my mother. [music] She said she need me when [music and singing] I come.
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I'm only go. [music] I'm only home [singing] over home. Oh, [music] [music] heat. [music] [music] Those [singing] lives were mine to love and cherish to guard [singing] and guide along life's way.
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Oh God [singing] forbid that one should perish, that oneless [singing] should go astray. [music] Back in the [singing] years with all together around [singing and music] the place we'd romp and blame so [singing and music] lonely now I of
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times wonder. Oh will [singing] they come back home someday? [music] I'm long [singing] so for my precious children. [music] They live [singing] so far [music] away.
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Oh, may they hear back [singing] calling and come back home someday. [singing] I gave [music] my all for my dear children.
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their problems [singing and music] still with love I share. I break [singing and music] my stone beyond [singing] [music] from anywhere.
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I live [singing and music] my life, my love. I gave them to [singing] guide them through this world of strife.
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I hope and [singing] pray we'll live [music] together in the [singing] great land here after life. [music] I'm lonesome [singing] for my precious children. [music] They live [singing] so far [music] away.
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Oh, may [singing] they hear my call [singing] and [singing] come back home someday. [music] [applause] Thank you, [applause] Mr. Roy Husky on the base. Welcome [cheering] [applause] [music] [music] [music] I am in the door [music] on God's [singing] high
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but I share my you go [singing] my way I [music] have no mother no father no [music] No [singing] other [singing and music] world.
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I have had friendships pure and [singing] gold. [music] A ties of I have not known them. [singing] I know no much.
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No father, no sister, no brother. [singing] I am an or [music] But when he calls me, I will [singing] be able [music] to meet my family at God's [singing] table.
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I'll need my mother, my father, my sister, my brother, [singing] no more and world, [music] so blessed Savior, make [music and singing] me well.
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Oh, beside me [music] till [singing] I'm willing. Be my mother, my [music and singing] father, my sister, my brother [singing] [music] and my [singing and music] mother. My brother, my brother, my [music] mother, my sister, [singing] my sister.
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[music] [singing] I am no. [music] [music] Last night I dreamed about [singing and music] you. I dreamed that you were older. You were looking [singing] like a castle [music] with a scar across your shoulder.
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or kneeling [singing] by. You were digging up the bodies buried long [singing] ago. [music] Michelangelo [singing] [music] last [singing] night I dreamed about you. I dreamed you were a pilgrim [music] on a [singing] highway out alone to find the mother of your children who
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were [music] still unborn [singing] and waiting in the wings of some desire abandoned [singing] long ago.
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Michelangelo [singing] [music] were you [singing] there at Armageddon? was bear is really burning. But I [singing] have been the one to pull you from [music] the void of Lord returning.
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And that I recalling [singing] out my name or was [music] it forgotten long ago?
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[singing] like land. [music] Oh. [singing] [music] Oh. [singing] Oh. [music] Last night I dreamed about [music and singing] you. A dream that you were riding on a blood red painted pony [music] up where the [singing] heavens were dividing
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and the angels turned ashes. He came tumbling with him to [singing] the earth [music] so far below.
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[music] like a [singing] land. [music] Last night I dreamed about you. A dream [music and singing] that you lay dying in a field of thorn and roes with a [music] hawk above you crying for the [singing] warrior slain in battle from
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an arrow driven deep [singing] inside [music] you long ago. [music] My [singing] philos. [music] Did you [singing] suffer at the end with there be no one to remember?
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Did you banish [singing] all the old ghost at the terms of your surrender? And could you [singing] hear me calling out your name? Well, I guess that [music] I will never know.
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[singing] Oh, my gland. [music] Last night [music] I dreamed about you. A dream that you were weeping. And your tears [singing and music] bore down like diamonds for a love beyond all keeping.
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And you caught [music and singing] them one by one in a million silver bandanas that I gave you long [music] ago.
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Oh [singing] my [music] glad. [music] Oh. [singing] [music] Oh. Oh. [singing] [music] Oh. [singing] Oh. [singing] Oh [singing] [music] [music] heat heat.
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[music] I am standing by the river. [music] I will be standing here forever. Though you're on the other side, [music] my face you still can see. Why won't you look at me? [music] Here I am.
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Here I am. I am searching through the canyon. [music] It is your name [singing] that I [music] am calling.
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Oh, you're so far [music] away. I know you hear my ple. Why won't you answer me?
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[music] Here I am. Here I am. Here I am. Here I am. I am in the blood of [singing] your heart, the breath of your love.
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Why do you run [singing] for cover? [music] You are from the dirt of the earth. The kiss [singing] of my [music] mouth.
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I have always been your lover. [music] Here I [music] am. Here I [music] am.
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Here I [music] am. Here [music] I am. [music] [music] [music] [music] I am the promise [singing] never broken and my arms [music and singing] are never open in [music] this harness.
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I will wait until [music] you come to me. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Here I am. [music] Here are [music] [music] [music] [music] The heel of my boot is on the [singing and music] leg of my chair.
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My chair [singing] leans back and rest on the wall. And the wall [singing] runs the length of my room to the door. [music] The door [singing] reaches down [music] to the sidewalk and the side walk [singing] leads [music]
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to the edge of the street. The street takes [music and singing] you out to the old highway.
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[music] and the highways [singing] at the county line [singing] bridge. [music] The bridge takes you up to the interstate. [music] The inner state [singing] roll off [music] beyond horizon where miles [singing] tend [music] to turn into days.
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And it finally runs into [music] the high [singing] road that was through the [music] city that took you [singing] away.
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[music] [music] Then it reaches [singing] a sidewalk that [music] kisses a wall and the wall rises to the 33rd [singing] [music] floor.
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The floor feels you step to the [singing] balcony rail. [music] From the rail [singing] you look [music] out on the interstate.
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The inner state [singing and music] rolls on beyond the horizon. [music] A highway [singing] of dreams come and gone.
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It always [singing] leads [music] back through roads that connect you to the food that keeps holding.
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[music] Here my boot is on [singing] the leg of my [music] chair. [music] [music] [music] Heat. [singing] Heat.
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Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [singing] [music] [singing] I [music and singing] can feel you.
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