Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Dusty Springfield
Canonical path: /dusty-springfield/i-start-counting
Related lyric paths: 6
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I Start Counting
Read I Start Counting lyrics by Dusty Springfield on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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I Start Counting
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This year, next year
Sometime never
Paper dreams tied up
With bits of string
Darkness comes
Flowers grow
No-one knows
I start counting
I start counting
Sitting by myself in a secret
Chasing thoughts through rainbows in my mind, yeah
Changing time
Tomorrow's dream
In between
I start counting
Counting, yes I do
Counting, counting, counting, counting, counting
Ooh-hoo-oo, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve etc.
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Dusty Springfield performs "I Start Counting", and this lyric page sits inside the Dusty Springfield catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to A House Is Not A Home and Another Night with a short reason for opening each page next.
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