The Long Way Around

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[Verse]

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I don't know what to say about these days
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I'm seeing people changing in the strangest ways
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Even in the richer neighborhoods
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People don't know when they've got it good
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They've got the envy and they've got it bad


[Interlude]

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[Verse 2]

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When I was a kid everything I did was trying to be free
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Running up and down Tinsel Town with the fire inside of me
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My planets all in retrograde, the best of all my plans got laid
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I made my breaks and some mistakes
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Just not the ones people think I made


[Chorus]

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I'm a long way gone
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Down this wild road I'm on
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It's going to take me where I'm bound
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But it's the long way around


[Interlude]

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[Verse 3]

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It's a little hard keeping track of what's gone wrong
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The covenant unravels and the news just rolls along
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I could feel my memory letting go some two or three disasters ago
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It's hard to say which did more ill
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Citizens United or the Gulf oil spill


[Chorus 2]

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I'm a long way gone
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Down this wild road I'm on
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It's going to take me where I'm bound
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But it's the long way around


[Solo]

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[Verse 4]

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It's never been that hard to buy a gun
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Now they'll sell a Glock 19 to just about anyone
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The seeds of tragedy are there
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In what we feel we have the right to bear
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To watch our children come to harm
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There in the safety of our arms
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With all we disagree about the passions burn,
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the heart goes out


[Chorus 3]

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I'm a long way gone
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Down this wild road I'm on
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It's going to take me where I'm bound
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But it's the long way around


[Solo]

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