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Life In Vain

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Life In Vain

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Don't want to be free of hope

And I'm at the end of my rope

It's so tough just to be alive

When I feel like the living dead

I'm giving it up so plain

I'm living my life in vain

And where am I going to?

I got to really try

Try so hard to get by

And where am I going to?

I don't know where is up or down

ANd there ain't any love left around

Everybody wearin' a frown

Waiting for Santa to come to town

You're giving it up so plain

You're living your lives in vain

And where are you going to?

You've got to really try

Try so hard to get by

And where are you going to?

Flip on your TV

And try to make sense out of that

If we were all in the movies

Maybe we wouldn't be so bored

We're giving it up so plain

We're living our lives in vain

And where are we going to?

You gotta really try

Try so hard to get by

And where are you going to?

Goodbye, goodbye

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