| I cover ground and
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| Get around a lot these days
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| And I meet a lotta people, too
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| An' if it takes a broken heart
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| To know one, well
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| I’m seein' lotsa shades of blue
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| (shades of blue)
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| The wealthy part of town
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| Done got the Yuletide bug
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| And the decoration store does fine
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| But sometimes on a dark and
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| Country backwoods road
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| I pass a little shack that shines
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| (shack that shines)
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| It doesn’t matter much
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| What kind of house you got
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| As long as it’s a happy home
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| Or if your lover’s love
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| Ain’t burnin' blue flame hot
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| As long as you don’t feel alone
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| (feel alone)
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| What kind of house you got
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| Won’t make it real or not
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| What kind of car you drive
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| Won’t keep your love alive
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| What kind of house you got
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| Won’t make it real or not
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| What kind of car you drive
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| Won’t keep your love alive
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| The stairway up to heaven’s
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| Made of rough hewn boards
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| And Christ is on a hard nail throne
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| I wonder, stuck in traffic with a low fuel light
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| If there’s time to change the road we’re on
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| (road we’re on)
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| It doesn’t matter much
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| What kind of house you got
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| As long as it’s a happy home
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| Or if your lover’s love
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| Ain’t burnin' blue flame hot
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| As long as you don’t feel alone
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| It doesn’t matter much
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| What kind of house you got
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| As long as it’s a happy home
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| Or if your lover’s love
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| Ain’t burnin' blue flame hot
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| As long as you don’t feel alone
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| (feel alone) |