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Artist: Shock Poets
Canonical path: /shock-poets/you-can-live
Related lyric paths: 6
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You Can Live
Read You Can Live lyrics by Shock Poets on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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You Can Live
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Take the time, read the label take the time
There's blood on your heel
Take the time, to look through the glass
And don't forget what you look like
When you smile, you move the table
When you smile, the earth starts to shake
When we talk, you notice the same things as I do
Then we freak out
For you can live on the silver screen
For you can live on acres of land
For you can live on the QE2
But that won't change the fact
That the same fate comes to…..
Tow the line, get up early
Tow the line, you got bills to pay
In your mind, you're dancing on ice
But you'd never learnt to skate
Give a thought, caught in the ocean
Take the time, to add up the day
By those stripes, that I read about
I know everything's being dealt with
For you can live on the silver screen
For you can live on acres of land
For you can live on the QE2
But that won't change the fact
That the same fate comes to all
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