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Artist: Robben Ford
Canonical path: /ford-robben/lateral-climb
Related lyric paths: 6
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Lateral Climb
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Lateral Climb
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The sun heats up another working day
Coffee, tea, and I'm on my way
Try to beat the traffic
And maybe yesterdays time
Try to make a little progress
In what's lookin' like a lateral climb
Put behind me, my spendthrift ways
And I've made more money than I did in those days
Used to carry a debt of twenty grand
(Bankin kind?)
And I've still got nothin'
It's lookin like a lateral climb
Our leader's addicted
To oil and war
Says it's freedom that we're fightin' for
Applause, applause
For bald face white collar crime
And they leave you stranded
Believin' in a lateral climb
The sun heats up another working day
Coffee, tea, and I'm on my way
What once was a dollar
Is lookin' more like a dime
Heads up people
It's nothin' but a lateral climb
A lateral climb
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Robben Ford performs "Lateral Climb", and this lyric page sits inside the Robben Ford catalog on LyroVerse.
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