[00:00.00]Jackson Browne - The Pretender
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[00:19.03]I'm going to rent myself a house
[00:23.11]In the shade of the freeway
[00:29.14]I'm going to pack my lunch in the morning
[00:33.51]And go to work each day
[00:38.31]And when the evening rolls around
[00:42.91]I'll go on home and lay my body down
[00:47.55]And when the morning light comes streaming in
[00:51.77]I'll get up and do it again
[00:55.09]Amen
[00:56.74]Say it again
[00:58.77]Amen
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[01:01.78]I want to know what became of the changes
[01:06.14]We waited for love to bring
[01:11.70]Were they only the fitful dreams
[01:14.98]Of some greater awakening
[01:21.17]I've been aware of the time going by
[01:25.51]They say in the end it's the wink of an eye
[01:30.43]And when the morning light comes streaming in
[01:34.39]You'll get up and do it again
[01:37.53]Amen
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[01:43.92]Caught between the longing for love
[01:47.15]And the struggle for the legal tender
[01:54.08]Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring
[01:58.78]And the junk man pounds his fender
[02:03.65]Where the veterans dream of the fight
[02:08.03]Fast asleep at the traffic light
[02:12.84]And the children solemnly wait
[02:16.24]For the ice cream vendor
[02:21.31]Out into the cool of the evening
[02:25.09]Strolls the Pretender
[02:31.22]He knows that all his hopes and dreams
[02:35.92]Begin and end there
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[02:46.77]Ah the laughter of the lovers
[02:50.26]As they run through the night
[02:56.20]Leaving nothing for the others
[02:59.24]But to choose off and fight
[03:03.61]And tear at the world with all their might
[03:08.73]While the ships bearing their dreams
[03:12.19]Sail out of sight
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[03:17.97]I'm going to find myself a girl
[03:22.14]Who can show me what laughter means
[03:27.66]And we'll fill in the missing colors
[03:31.64]In each other's paint-by-number dreams
[03:37.13]And then we'll put out dark glasses on
[03:41.64]And we'll make love until our strength is gone
[03:46.30]And when the morning light comes streaming in
[03:50.37]We'll get up and do it again
[03:55.38]Get it up again
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[03:59.85]I'm going to be a happy idiot
[04:03.34]And struggle for the legal tender
[04:09.95]Where the ads take aim and lay their claim
[04:14.84]To the heart and the soul of the spender
[04:18.92]And believe in whatever may lie
[04:23.53]In those things that money can buy
[04:28.19]Thought true love could have been a contender
[04:37.56]Are you there?
[04:40.84]Say a prayer for the Pretender
[04:47.12]Who started out so young and strong
[04:50.78]Only to surrender
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