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Artist: John Martyn
Canonical path: /john-martyn/root-love
Related lyric paths: 6
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Root Love
Read Root Love lyrics by John Martyn on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Root Love
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A thousand kisses flying home to you
A thousand kisses, two thousand miles from view
Root love
A hotel room don’t make it
When I'm thinking about your face
Cheap experience don’t shake it
Thinking about my place
Root love, root love
And that harvey’s banging walls again
And the paint job’s wearing thin
Got to feeling mean again
Like momma drinking gin
Root love
The bar looks so inviting
Maybe one more fanny mae
Maybe one more happy hour
And another day away from
Root love
Little boy blue lost again
Telling others sorry tales
Just one more sinking sunrise
And two more crimson sails
And root love
Well a hotel just don’t make it
When I'm thinking about your face
Cheap experience don’t shake it
Thinking about my place
Root love
A thousand kisses, root love
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John Martyn performs "Root Love", and this lyric page sits inside the John Martyn catalog on LyroVerse.
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