The Levellers - The Road

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0Well its headlights, and white lights, and Black Tar Rivers
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1They're dragging me around this country as it withers
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2The billboards, signposts, standing in the way
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3Tell of the state of the nations, that we find today
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6And we play and we play and we play
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7To every day, every day, every day
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8Every day
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11And in the front rooms of old towns far from the city
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12With beaten up guitars and hearts full of pity
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13The people gather round singing songs from everywhere
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14They're torn from the nation, left without a care
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17And we play and we play and we play
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18To every day, every day, every day
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19Every day
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22And we'll rid the bloody world for a moment in a word
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23And we'll rid the bloody world cos
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24The words that you heard when you were young will always stay
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25The one's that always stay make the world go away
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26The words that you heard when you were young will always stay
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27The one's that always stay make the world go away
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28Go away
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31Warm night, clear sky, European town
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32Outside the bars singing their hearts out to a crowd
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33With open boots, violin, banjo and a voice
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34The exiled buskers are happy with their choice
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