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Artist: Bruce Hornsby
Canonical path: /bruce-hornsby/hot-house-ball
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Hot House Ball
Read Hot House Ball lyrics by Bruce Hornsby on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Hot House Ball
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We've lived around here most all of our lives
Did most anything we wanted to do
We will celebrate every 4th of July
Just a little tamer than most of the rest of us do
Don't light a match, don't play with fire
Pull down easy on the gas lighter
There's a shelter down at the veteran's hall
Living in the shadow of the hot house ball
We can dance in the streets any night or day
The big ball men built such a nice old park
One day we'll celebrate every Halloween
Our faces as masks everyone glow in the dark
Don't light a match, don't play with fire
Step real lightly on the barbed wire
Keep the noise down to hear the meltdown call
Living in the shadow of the hot house ball
Temper's hot, better pray for rain
Better watch out now for the gamma rays
Party time at the government gate
Don't light a match, don't play with fire
Pull down easy on the gas lighter
There's a shelter down at the veteran's hall
Living in the shadow of the hot house ball
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Bruce Hornsby performs "Hot House Ball", and this lyric page sits inside the Bruce Hornsby catalog on LyroVerse.
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