| I heard you singing
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| What were you singing when the people got right?
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| Were you singing Stand and Deliver?
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| Or was it Down by the River?
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| Were you singing a fine old tune like Gone to Glory?
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| Laying it down with grace and power
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| Long about the midnight hour
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| I heard the people all singing
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| Like they’d never sung before
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| All over the country
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| Who could help but stand beside you?
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| Hello, hello — is there anybody here?
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| My knuckles are sore from rapping all day
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| I said: Give me one more chance
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| I’d do it for you if I had your way
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| If I had your way
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| What do I know? |
| What do I see?
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| Don’t know nothing but the name of the game
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| It’s high-card draw with everything wild
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| You bet your life like anyone’s child
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| What else would you want to do?
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| I heard the people all singing
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| Like they never sung before
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| Singing in key and strumming
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| Everything they heard from you
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| Hello, hello, hello, hello … goodbye
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| Looking back across the years
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| Other matters disappear
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| In the murmur I can hear
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| Familiar voices loud and clear
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| Hello, hello, hello, hello … goodbye
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| I heard you singing
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| Like one last song in the middle of the night
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| Were you singing in tongues of fire
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| Or was it knots of anger?
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| Were you singing a fine old tune like
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| Love Me, Love Me, Love Me Only?
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| Were you caught btween the curtains
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| Thinking this was too uncertain?
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| Remember … the people were singing
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| Like they never sung before
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| All over the country
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| Did you love the way they loved you?
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| Ain’t no knocker on the last big door
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| Just push on the panel and walk on in Hello, hello, is there anybody here
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| But a two-bit high and a busted mirror?
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| Hello, hello — is anybody here?
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| My tongue is so sore from rapping all day
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| Sunshine in the dead on night
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| I know that can’t be right
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| Could it be? |
| I don’t know
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| But it never done that thing before
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| So close to my own back door
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| It got me wondering what to do And the only thing was to come and tell you
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| Because — I heard you singing — I heard you |