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Artist: John Cale
Canonical path: /john-cale/dead-or-alive
Related lyric paths: 6
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Dead Or Alive
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Dead Or Alive
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Sooner or later she said she'd be my friend
Honest and faithful till the very end
Well enough of that I'm tired of hearing it anyway
She turns and smiles says goodbye in her inimical way
Happy to see her in the back of a magazine
Lying there nude sporting that stupid grin
So get on with it straight on and porno bound
Just leave me out of it I'm not proud
It would have taken you a long long time
Happy to see her in the back of a limousine
Laughing and crying at everything she'd seen
Well enough of that she should have known better anyway
When I told her what I'd seen she was so ashamed
It would have taken me a long long time
The a year from monday everything I said came true
That's when the d.a. called me he said dead or alive for you
They found her
Dead or alive
I want you dead or alive she said
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