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Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Canonical path: /bruce-springsteen/the-time-that-never-was
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The Time That Never Was
Read The Time That Never Was lyrics by Bruce Springsteen on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The Time That Never Was
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Sometimes I wake up in the morning and it cuts me like a knife
I come face-to-face with my longing for another world, another life
And a time that never was, oh a time that never was
We drove on, fueled not by the future, but by a past we could never touch
Forced to run head-on collisions, till we vanished in the dust
Of a time that never was, the time that never was
So kiss me once more baby, one more kiss you must
Don’t ever let me forget, girl, a time that never was
A time that never was, the times that never was
The time that never was, the time that never was
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Bruce Springsteen performs "The Time That Never Was", and this lyric page sits inside the Bruce Springsteen catalog on LyroVerse.
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