| Backroads winding over the hill
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| all those warm open faces,
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| smiled a welcome and goodbye
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| I hold you here in my heart,
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| lady with your Mona Lisa smile
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| your body filled my senses, like the heavens fill the sky
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| and I was born to know you without ever knowing why
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| down the backroads,
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| honey, down the backroads
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| the backroads of my life.
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| Zapped out on nothing
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| nothing left to blame
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| fate is a stranger,
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| sometimes calls your name.
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| and I lost me a fortune
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| but I got diamonds in my hand
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| I hear your voice in the night,
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| see the trees throwing patterns on your skin
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| I took a road to somewhere, but I guess I lost my way
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| for the best of good intentions, I was coming back one day
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| down the backroads
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| honey, down the backroads
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| the backroads of my life.
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| Best friends were strangers
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| Lord I broke the rules
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| broke a hundred miles of hearts,
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| Lord I played the fool
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| now it’s a strange consolation
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| when you think you got it made
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| I’ve journeyed to the anvils of the sun
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| frozen in the bitter arctic winds
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| when forgotten friends and memories, come tugging at my sleeve
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| you get the urge for going then you wonder why you leave
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| down the backroads
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| honey, down the backroads
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| the backroads of my life.
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| Freight train to nowhere
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| coasting down the plane
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| I was hitching on a highway
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| now there’s singing in the wires
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| and I’m so lonesome I could cry
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| I hold you here in my heart,
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| lady with your Mona Lisa smile
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| your body filled my senses,
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| like the heavens fill the sky
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| and I was born to know you,
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| without ever knowing why
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| down the backroads,
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| honey, down the backroads
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| the backroads of my life. |