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The Light
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New demo (1/17/06).
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Conceived and reared in New York, domesticated in Southern California. Physician, musician, husband, father and generalized procrastinator, not necessarily in t
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic General
Charts
Peak #224
Peak in subgenre #32
Author
Michael Novick
Uploaded
March 07, 2006
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MP3 5.1 MB • 128 kbps • 5:34
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Influences: Billy Joel, The Beatles
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The light was on when he got home from the war in ‘45 And he kept thinking he was so lucky to be alive He let her sleep through the night His heart was pounding in his chest He put his faith in god and let fortune do the rest He knew that life could be unfair But he couldn’t bring himself to touch her hair just yet The years flew by and it was hard for them to keep things in the black But the future was still an aphrodisiac They moved out west to start anew They made the most of what they had And they thanked the good lord when none of it went bad He knew his life had been redeemed But it was never quite as charmed as it first seemed to them On a sea of red he’d learned to hide himself behind his bloodshot eyes And faithfully she made his coffee black the way he learned to like it The light was on when got home but only because he left it that way He missed the way she made things glow And the things she said that saved him all those many years ago He sees his life is getting long But he knows it isn’t time to move along just yet On a sea of red he’d learned to hide himself behind his bloodshot eyes And faithfully she made his coffee black the way he learned to like it
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