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Artist: Nick Drake
Canonical path: /nick-drake/joey
Related lyric paths: 6
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Joey
Read Joey lyrics by Nick Drake on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Joey
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Joey will come to see your flowers
Joey will come to while away your hours
But she will tell you you're not so good for her
She wouldn't be there if it could be that you were.
Joey has loved but never shown her tears
So she may laugh in the autumn of your years
And when you're with her, you'll wonder if it's true
All they said of a world without you.
Where she may come from
Where she may go
Who she may run from
No one will know
Why she was late may trouble you some
Still you wait for Joey to come.
Joey will come when once more it looks like snow
Joey will come when it's really time to go
And you may smile when you find that you've been wrong
You thought you'd found her but she knew you all along.
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Nick Drake performs "Joey", and this lyric page sits inside the Nick Drake catalog on LyroVerse.
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