Baby
It's been a long day, baby
Things ain't been going my way
You now I need you here
You clear my mind all the time
And, baby

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The way you move me, it's crazy
It's like you see right through me
And make it easier
Believe me, you don't even have to try
Oh, because

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You are the best thing
(You're the best thing)
You are the best thing
(You're the best thing, baby)
You are the best thing
(You're the best thing, ooh)
Ever happened to me

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Baby
We've come a long way
And, baby
You know I hope and I pray
That you believe me
When I say this love will never fade away
Oh, because

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You are the best thing
(You're the best thing)
You are the best thing
(You're the best thing, baby)
You are the best thing
(You're the best thing, ooh)
Ever happened to me

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Both of us have known love before
To come on up promising like a spring, to walk on out the door
Our words are strong and our hearts are kind
Let me tell you just exactly what's on my mind

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You are the best thing
(You're the best thing)
You are the best thing
(You're the best thing, baby)
You are the best thing
(You're the best thing, ooh)
Ever happened to me

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You are the best thing
(You're the best thing)
You are the best thing
(You're the best thing, baby)
You are the best thing
(You're the best thing, ooh)
Ever happened to me

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Yeah, yeah
(You are the best thing)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
(You are the best thing)
(That ever happened to me)

There comes a time
A time in everyone's life
Where nothing seems to go your way
Where nothing seems to turn out right

There may come a time
You just can't seem to find your place
And for every door you open
Seems like you get two slammed in your face

That's when you need someone
Someone that you, you can call
When all your faith is gone
And it feels like you can't go on

Let it be me
Let it be me
If it's a friend that you need
Let it be me
Let it be me
When it feels like you're always coming up last
Pockets full of nothing and you got no cash
No matter where you turn you ain't got no place to stand
You reach out for something and they slap your hand

Now, I remember all too well
Just how it feels to be all alone
You feel like you'd give anything
For just a little place you can call your own

That's when you need someone
Someone that you, you can call
When all your faith is gone
It feels like you can’t go on

Let it be me
Let it be me
If it's a friend you need
Let it be me
Let it be me
Let it be me
Let it be me
If it's a friend you need
Let it be me
Let it be me, let it be me

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When we first met we were kids, we were wild
We were restless
And after a while, I grew coarse, I grew cold
I grew reckless
I hold this memory, hold you so close to me
Whispered "will we always have this?"

Lately it feels like I'm asleep
And I just can't wake
Pacing the floor, want to call
But I can't so I hang up
Sharing a seat on the train
With a lady who's crying, has ruined her make up

Now I see just how young, how scared I was
Eyes closed tight, throwing punch after punch at the world
Sarah, is it ever gonna be the same?
Sarah, is it ever gonna be the same?

Said goodbye to all the places I used to go
Said goodbye to all the faces I used to know
Nothing lasts forever
I guess by now, I should know
I should know

There ain't a thing I can say that will ever repair
And you, who had so much advice
And yet couldn't share
Maybe someday, we will look back on this and we'll smile
But right now I can't bear

Now I see just how young, how scared I was
Eyes closed tight, throwing punch after punch at the world

Sarah, is it ever gonna be the same?
Sarah, is it ever gonna be the same

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Hear me out, day
Follows day
Light turns to clay in my hands
How to explain,
So pristine the pain
Kindness made the cut so clean

I still care for you
I still care for you
I still care for you

Hear me out, you wanted
me to be
Less your love than a mirror
Can't you see
What you mean to me?
Even promises may bleed

I still care for you
I still care for you
I still care for you

The hours grow heavy
And hollow,
Cruel as a grave
Open me and you'll find
Only bones burned to glass

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It's the Widow now that owns that angry plow
The spartan Mule and The Crippled Cow
The fallow field that will yield no more
As the fox lay sleeping beneath her kitchen floor

The stream can't contain such the withering rain
And from the pasture the fence it is leaning away
The clouds crack and growl
Like some great cat on the prowl
Crying out, "I am, I am" over and over again

The days grow short
As the nights grow long
The kettle sings its tortured song
As many petaled kiss I place upon her brow
Oh, my lady, Lady I am loving you now

The winter birds have come back again
Here the sprightly Chickadee
Gone now is the Willow Wren
In passing greet each other as if old, old friends
And to the voiceless trees
It is their own they will lend

The days grow short
As the nights grow long
The kettle sings its tortured song
As many petaled kiss I place upon her brow
Oh, my lady, lady I am loving you now

And though all these things will change
The memories will remain
As green to gold, and gold to brown
The leaves will fall to feed the ground
And in their falling, make no sound

Oh my lady
Lady I am loving you now

I've gathered all my money and I'm goin' to town
To buy my lady a long and flowing gown
'Cause come tomorrow morning
We're off to the county fair
I'll find a yellow flower
And I will lace it in her hair

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Meg White
You're alright
In fact, I think you’re pretty swell
Can't you tell?

Meg White
Such a pretty thing
I saw your face on the cover
Of a magazine

Some day (some day)
I'd like (I’d like)
To take a walk with you
Maybe ride our bikes down by the sea side

Meg White
I saw you on the big screen
Oh, Jack was king, but you stole the scene

Meg White
Baby, you're the bomb
Oh, Jack is great don't get me wrong
But this is your song

Some day (some day)
I'd like (I'd like)
To take a walk with you
Talk about most anything you'd like to talk about
And watch the sun going down
Going down

Playin' those drums is hard to do
It's true
And nobody plays them quite like you do

Meg White
You're alright
In fact, I think you're pretty swell
Can't you tell?

Meg White
Such a pretty thing
I saw your face on the cover of a magazine

Some day (some day)
I'd like (I'd like)
To take a walk with you
Maybe ride our bikes down by the sea side

And watch the sun going down
Going down
Going down
Going down

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Papa's in the kitchen
Mama's in the field
There's a murder in the henhouse
Mud flung high upon the wheels
Ol' rooster in the dooryard
He's just leanin' on the horn
With the wind so sweetly driftin'
Through the ripening corn

Hey Me, Hey Mama
Where you been for so long, for so long
Hey Me, Hey Mama
Where you been, where you
Been for so long

There's something outrageous
'Bout that evening sky
Just this side of dangerous
That look in your eye
I always knew that you were crazy
Always knew you could be cruel
Still, I would do just about anything
In the world for you

Hey Me, Hey Mama
Where you been for so long, for so long
Hey Me, Hey Mama
Where you been, where you
Been for so long?

Left me standin' in the corner
With my head so hangin' down
Punch-drunk, busted up and reelin'
Like a rodeo clown
You always seem to hit me
Like a lightnin' from above
I guess I just wasn't ready for
Such a heavy-handed love

Hey Me, Hey Mama
Where you been for so long, for so long
Hey Me, Hey Mama
Where you been, where you
Been for so long

Hey Me, Hey Mama
Where you been for so long for so long
Hey Me, Hey Mama
Where you been, where you
Been for so long

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All my life I been poor boy son
Scratchin' for my meat
I have been kicked in my teeth
Till the blood run hot and sweet

Seen a lot of living my friend
And this I will repeat
Just because you knock a man down
Don't mean that you got him beat

It's a shame, shame, shame
Baby it's a cryin' shame
It's a shame, shame, shame
Baby it's a cryin' shame

Henry nearly killed me,
'Fore they hauled his ass in jail
Slapped me right across my face
With a flour sack full o' nails

Nearly broke my head in two
With his steel-toed boots
Shovin' all that money
Down the laundry chute

Listen, It's a shame, shame, shame
Baby it's a cryin' shame
It's a shame, shame, shame
Cryin' shame

Well, sweet little Mary Anne
With her make-up all a mess
Picks herself up off the floor
Coughs and straightens her dress

Sayin' please, please daddy, can I
Have just a little bit more
I said sorry baby, but I'm headin' out
Somehow this town don't feel like home anymore

It's a shame, shame, shame
Baby it's a cryin' shame
It's a shame, shame, shame
Baby it's a cryin' shame

I've seen a lot of living my friend
And this I will repeat
Just because you knock a man down
Don't mean you got him beat

It's a shame, shame, shame
Baby it's a cryin' shame
It's a shame, shame, shame
Baby it's a cryin' shame

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Laid our blessings on the ground,
The softening of sound
Draws us closed again

Stay, stay and watch the coals
Till they cease to glow
Like empty promises

Why, Why did you go, why did you go away?
Why, Why did you go, why did you go away, babe?

There's nothing I can say
Nothing I can do
To bring you back again

This of life I know is true
It's all a falling through
And so I reach for you

Why, Why did you go, why did you go away?
Why, Why did you go, why did you go away?

Don't you care
That it may seem unfair?
You steal things you ought to borrow
Don't you find
That it may seem unkind?
I'd rather breathe than drown in sorrow

Why, why did you go?
Why did you go away?
Why, why did you go?
Why did you go away babe?

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Such the lazy Jackstraw
Always late for tea
Never bothers to ring lately

Says the silly Sparrow
'There's gossip in the grain
Have you heard the...Oh you don't say'

'Someday, someday
A snow shall fill the trees
You'd best make warm the eves'

Callous is the old Crow
He'd mock even the sun
Eyes as black as blood
Bone crack in the craw

He'd say, he'd say
Always a 'Never mind'
Always a 'Never mind'

Truth be:
The Beggar that holds his tongue
Dines on none but air alone

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