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Artist: Sonic Youth
Canonical path: /sonic-youth/i-m-not-there
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I'm Not There
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I'm Not There
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Things are crashing down, she's all too tired
In my neighborhood she cries both day and night
It's a milestone but she's down on her luck
Days make her so lonely and it's so hard to buck
Now and then
I believe that she'd stop him if she'd find time to care
I believe that she may look upon deciding whose to care
And I go by the Lord, anywhere she's on my way
But I don't belong there
No I don't belong to her, I don't belong to anybody
She's my Christ forsaken angel but she don't hear me cry
She's a long hearted mystic and she can't carry on
When I'm there she's all right then she's not when I'm gone
Heaven knows that the answer she don't call no one
She's the way forsaken beauty, she's mine for the one
And I lost her hesitating about temptation as it runs
She don't harm me, I'm not there I'm gone
Now I've cried tonight like I cried the night before
And I'll feast on the highway but I'll dream about the door
It's alone she's forsaken by her fate with to tell
It don't have approximation she is smiling fairly well
Her smile is contagious, I was born to love her
But she knows that the kingdom waits so high above her
And I run by the race but it's not too fast stayed
But I got the fever I'm not there I'm gone
Well, it's all about diffusion as I cry for her veil
I don't need anybody now beside me to tell
And it's all affirmation, I'm asleep but it's not
She's a lone-hearted beauty but she don't like spot
And she calls
Yeah, she's gone like a rainbow that was shining yesterday
But she's home now beside me and I'd like her to stay
She's a lone forsaken beauty and she don't trust no one
And I wish I was beside her but I'm not there I'm gone
It's too hard to stay here and I don't want to leave
It's so hard for so few you see but she's hard to, hard to me
It's a ___ it's a crime, the way she mauls me around
But she don't phone to hate me but it's down to make her crown
Yes, I believe that it's rightful, I believe it in my mind
I've been told like I said for carrying on crying
Yes, the soul gypsy told her like I said carry on
Wish I was there... But I'm not there I'm gone.
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