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Artist: The Verve
Canonical path: /the-verve/columbo
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Columbo
Read Columbo lyrics by The Verve on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Columbo
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Baby, why are you wasting time crying
Like it's the only thing to do?
Baby, don't you worry, you're still crying
Your instinct's all it's got, I knew
Baby, don't you worry, you're still crying
I can see the sadness in your eye
Baby, why are you wasting time crying?
Trying to find out the reasons why?
Baby, don't believe it when they say it
Love is just a feeling that you give
You're the universe and you're all I need
Tell me all the secrets that I'll forgive
Ooh, yeah, yeah
Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
All right, oh, yeah
Oh, yeah
Just watch the lights go down over this town
Watch the Thames weave down, wind it's way round
Watch the city boys leave, full of bluster
Ain't it easy for you as a kid to get yourself so messed up?
We don't know, we don't know (oh, yeah)
We don't know, we don't know (oh, yeah)
We don't know, we don't know
We don't know, we don't know (a-ha)
Fame, a celebrity culture
Flash light, flash light
Fame, bullet proof bathroom
Inside, she's fixing up
Fame, a sealing-up number one
Vacuum, a vacuum
Fame, miracle accent
Inside, start it up, shoot it up
Shoot it up, shoot it up, shoot your gun
Fame, the vanity minstrel
Fame, the mirror of the wet dream
And I look and I'm feeling that accent
Dying on the inside, I'm dying on the inside
Love's like oxygen
Love's like oxygen
Love's like oxygen
Love's like oxygen
Love's like oxygen
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