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Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Canonical path: /robert-earl-keen/these-years
Related lyric paths: 6
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These Years
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These Years
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Down the hill
Through the light
Past the city jail
I watch and walk
Every night
I wondered who to tell
How can I tell my father?
He's been gone all these years
I couldn't tell my father
I couldn't bear the tears
I was lost
In a rage
Didn't ever mean to be
Now the cost
Has set the stage
And it will bury me
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Robert Earl Keen performs "These Years", and this lyric page sits inside the Robert Earl Keen catalog on LyroVerse.
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