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Artist: Ben Harper
Canonical path: /ben-harper/having-wings
Related lyric paths: 6
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Having Wings
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Having Wings
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I heard a street singer play a song I knew
It brought me closer to you
I heard a street singer play a song I call my own
It brought me to my childhood home
Did you go back from where you came?
If I get there, will they have my name?
If they don't, I'll only have myself to blame
For all these things, true happiness is having wings
Life is a blurry-eyed, heavy-hearted whirlwind of a storm
Some things just hurt too much to cry
Memories are like shadows the light won't make disappear
I still see you smiling with your eyes
Did you go back from where you came?
If I get there, will they have my name?
If they don't, I'll only have myself to blame
For all these things, true happiness is having wings
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Ben Harper performs "Having Wings", and this lyric page sits inside the Ben Harper catalog on LyroVerse.
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