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Artist: Emmylou Harris
Canonical path: /emmylou-harris/darkest-day
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Darkest Day
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Darkest Day
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Darlin' when you told me you were leavin' I thought that you were only foolin' me
But here I am to face old blue tomorrow with a broken heart that's filled with misery
It seems that my world is through an end
Just dreamin' of things that might have been
Oh why I don't get all sunshine bright today's the darkest day of my life
(oh that's Grady Martin)
[ guitar ]
Oh how I wish that old scene is through it's always darkest just before dawn
Then I'll know soon I'm gonna see the sunshine
I just can't take this darkness on and on
It seems that my world is...
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Emmylou Harris performs "Darkest Day", and this lyric page sits inside the Emmylou Harris catalog on LyroVerse.
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