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Artist: Carpenters
Canonical path: /carpenters/road-ode
Related lyric paths: 6
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Road Ode
Read Road Ode lyrics by Carpenters on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Road Ode
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I've been on this lonely road so long
Does anybody know where it goes
I remember the last time
The signs pointed home a month ago
Rented cars and empty motel rooms
Lead you everywhere but home
Crowds of people shouting
How they love the show
They don't know
The endless crowds of faces
Just keep on wearing a smile
The countless times and places lead me back
Please take me back home
I wonder if these feelings ever change
How many times I'll lift this load
Come tomorrow I'll be gone again
Roads of sorrows coming to an end for me
The endless crowds of faces
Just keep on wearing a smile
The countless times and places lead me back
Please take me back home
I wonder if these feelings ever change
How many times I'll lift this load
Come tomorrow I'll be gone again
Roads of sorrows coming to an end for me
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Carpenters performs "Road Ode", and this lyric page sits inside the Carpenters catalog on LyroVerse.
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