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Artist: John Hiatt
Canonical path: /john-hiatt/what-do-we-do-now
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What Do We Do Now?
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What Do We Do Now?
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What do we do now
What do we do now
What do we do now
What do we do now
When it's lying there with a busted heart
Like a piece of glass where do you start
Do we pick it up or say goodbye
Is there one tear left for us to cry
What do we do now
What do we do now
What do we do now
What do we do now
What if I can't stay
What if you can't stay
What if I can't leave
What if you can't leave
What if I believed
Every word you say
What if you believed
Until today
Do we call the kids
Or call the cops
Can you hold me till
This howling stops
What do we do now
What do we do now
What do we do now
What do we do now
Gimme back my steel
Gimme back my nerve
Gimme back my youth
For the dead man's curve
For that icy feel when
You start to swerve
Give us back the love
We don't deserve
'Cause we rode it long
We drove it hard
And we wrecked it
In our own backyard
What do we do now
What do we do now
What do we do now
What do we do now
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John Hiatt performs "What Do We Do Now?", and this lyric page sits inside the John Hiatt catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to 'Til I Get My Lovin' Back and (No More) Dancing In The Street with a short reason for opening each page next.
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