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Keep The Change

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Phil Ochs Canonical path: /phil-ochs/keep-the-change Related lyric paths: 6
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Keep The Change

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Now Id like to lay here in the night

Now Id like to linger in the light

Wishing not to move

I have nothing left to prove

But did I hear you asking was it wrong or right

Chorus

If you feel a little strange

Please have the memory and keep the change

Now Id like to hover in a hole

Where silence is the singer of the soul

I have no games to play

I have no lines to say

But someones taking surveys on a passion pole

Pretending every worry has all gone

Now Id like to drift into the dawn

As simple as it seems (? )

Changing thoughts around to dreams (? )

But did I hear the stifling of a sleepless yawn

Now Id like to dangle in a dream

A cavalier whos courting to the queen

Hopelessly insane

Running ragged through the rain

But someones directing lovers on a silver screen

Now Id live to hide behind a hand

Its too late for leaving footprints on the sand

Willing/chilling (? ) is the wine

Ive surrendered to the time

But someone is insisting that

they understand

Now youve heard the story of the skin

All the ashtrays have been powdered to the brim

Id only like to fall

Watching whispers on the wall

But someones making up the bed and defining sin

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