Tonart: A major
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Verse 1
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Sitting on
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the wings of a 747 airplane
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Just back from Newtown Connecticut,
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Cincinnati and Champaign
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It was nice hanging out in those
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cities with some of my friends
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Get up on stage and play
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beautiful music with them
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Now I'm looking out the window
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where Robin Williams died
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Passed him once in a car
on Thanksgiving day
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Was with my girlfriend at the time
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Who sadly passed away just be
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fore she turned 35
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That's when I learned the world's unfair
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And that things aren't always right
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It fucked me up, and for weeks
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I couldn't get out of bed
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The world don't owe us shit,
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I learned that real fucking young
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And I learned it again
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Had to make the best of every day and every
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Can't seize the beauty in life,
cause baby
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You don't know when it's gonna end
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When I'm feeling overwhelmed
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and things are stacking up in mind
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Her picture's always near me,
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and I look at it every day of my life
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Think about what she would have
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given to live just another year
To see her baby turn one,
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and when I think about it
I swallow my tears
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Had lunch the oth er day with my
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drummer friend named Steve
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We talked about music and traveling,
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and he's always good to see
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When you're my friend,
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I got your back for life
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Try to hurt anyone I care about,
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I might slice you up real nice
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I'm housesitting a 14- year- old
cat named Pete
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My girlfriend's friend is off in Spain
and she left him with me
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And he lays on my bed and we
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gaze into each other's eyes
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And I fall into that kitty cat spell,
Interlude 1
all hypnotized
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I shared the stage the other
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night with my friend Will
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We sang "Mother's Love"
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together and it was beautiful
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He's got a mind of his own
he's in control of his life
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And I respect that much
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He's on his way to play a max
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imum- security prison
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And I'm on my way to L.A.
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to play the Henry Fonda Theatre
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To join up once again and play nice
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music with my friends
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Music's a powerful thing,
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whether played in a theater
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Or a state pen
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a wonderful time
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Felt love from the crowd and I'm
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pretty sure they felt mine
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Saw my friends Ian and Claire and Mitch
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and Patrick and I gave them all hugs
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There was a message from Will saying he was
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still reeling from "Mother's Love"
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My mom's visiting on Sunday
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She's gonna kick my ass
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in Scrabble over and over again
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My whole family's in deni
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al about a sick relative
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Just keep working really hard and try not to think
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Just back from Austin, Texas; Chicago,
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Illinois; Winnipeg
[?] I saw all my friends down there and
we played "I Got You Babe"
And we sang songs about oxen,
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baby Jesus, shepherds and hay
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And I remembered when I was a kid
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in Ohio on Christmas Day
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One time I got a guitar
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and that
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was the start of my life
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My dad always got me one gift,
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and I still carry around that shiny fishing knife
Sitting on the wings of a United Airline
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Just back from Lincoln, Salt Lake City and Orlando,
where I had a good time
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Did that one alone with a guitar,
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and a snare and a tom
Brought a volunteer up to play drums
She said that her day job was a mom
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Just back from the doctor where I
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Just turned 48 baby,
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gotta ad mit it kinda concerns me
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So I'm trying to eat better,
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walk a few more miles and exercise more
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It's
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the first week of February,
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It was 12 years ago in San
Francisco one night
That I lost my friend
There ain't a day that goes by I don't
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pause and think about her
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I'm getting older baby,
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but I try to count my blessings
Outro 1
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