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Artist: Indigo Girls
Canonical path: /indigo-girls/come-a-long-way
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Come a Long Way
Read Come a Long Way lyrics by Indigo Girls on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Come a Long Way
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I've come a long way
I was a show on ice
Dazzling and brittle
But subject to the Sun
And then one day
I went little by little
Back to the water
The place where I'd come from
And I went under
Like stones tied in a sack
And I got emptied
And started my way back
My name
It's got your name on it
My shame
It's got your name on it
My home
It's got your name on it
Everything I own
And all my schemes drowned at the seams
Have left me fine in my own skin
I've come a long way
Just to begin
I've come a long way
Under the cover of darkness
Trusting a stranger
A boatman at the shore
The scourge of hope
The ugly face of danger
The keepers of the keys
Had me down on my knees
In front of the gilded doors
And in a world where every ax was poised to grind
To find my peace I only held up
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