Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Roy Orbison
Canonical path: /roy-orbison/only-alive
Related lyric paths: 6
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Only Alive
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Only Alive
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When you happened by my open eyes could see,
My sleeping hands awoke and almost reached,
I was full of life till you walked on by
Then I went right back to feeling sad and lonely
And only alive.
For a moment my heart began to beat,
My puppet legs responded to your strings,
And my shuffling feet started stepping high
Then I went right back to feeling sad and lonely
And only alive.
For all the things worth living for
Left me for someone new
And all of those things I lost
I was left condemned to a lonely life
Then I went right back to feeling sad and lonely
And only alive.
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Roy Orbison performs "Only Alive", and this lyric page sits inside the Roy Orbison catalog on LyroVerse.
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