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Artist: Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band
Canonical path: /kenny-wayne-shepherd-band/the-wire
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The Wire
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The Wire
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If I were a crow, I wouldn't have no fear of heights
For watching this old world's fragile below
I don't have a net, don't have no jet wings, I can't fly
If I miss a step, yeah, that's how I'd go
Oh, the wire keeps getting higher, keeps getting higher
I ain't looking down no more
On the wire, I don't know why
Tell me what I'm up here for
If I was a king, somebody would take the risk for me
I'll just sit and watch them walk the line
But if my night burns out like a match in gasoline
If I take the fall, well, it's all mine
Oh, the wire keeps getting higher, keeps getting higher
I ain't looking down no more
Up on the wire, I don't know why
Tell me what I'm up here for
Oh, the wire keeps getting higher, keeps getting higher
I ain't looking down no more
On the wire, I don't know why
Tell me what I'm up here for
Higher, on the wire
Tell me what I'm up here for
I'm on the wire, on the wire
I ain't looking down no more
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band performs "The Wire", and this lyric page sits inside the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band catalog on LyroVerse.
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