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Artist: Pete Townshend
Canonical path: /pete-townshend/give-it-up
Related lyric paths: 6
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Give It Up
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Give It Up
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I need a drink; I want to drown;
Don't wanna think; don't want a sound;
But I hear a voice shouting so loud
Give It Up
I got a wife; I gotta chose;
Stay out at night, what can I lose?
Only one thing I gotta do,
Give It Up
Early in the morning, night after night;
I look at your picture, and I don't know why
Like an air distant memory, I can't forget,
and it's coming back down on me; I'm living in bed.
Oh no, not me,
though you didn't really want me at all
I need a drink; I want to drown;
Don't wanna think; don't want a sound;
But I hear a voice shouting so loud
Give It Up
Early in the morning, night after night;
I look at your picture, and I don't know why
Like an air distant memory, I can't forget,
and it's coming back down on me; I'm living in bed.
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Pete Townshend performs "Give It Up", and this lyric page sits inside the Pete Townshend catalog on LyroVerse.
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