Trying To Find A New Way
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It was Seventy-one when I wrote our first song
Mom was still sleeping
Dad was still gone
So I snuck out of bed
Wrote down a line
I liked the words but they seemed out of
Time, time, time is the enemy
Trying to rhyme in a line what you meant to me
I thought I had it when I found that diminished
Seventy verses later I was still trying to finish
I was trying to find a new way to get to you
Trying to find a new way to make it true
Trying to find a new way
It was Eighty-two before we broke their hearts
Always pedal to the metal
Unsettled from the start
It was touch and go and up and down
And we held onto each other like a merry-go-round
Round, round like a satellite
I tried to sing it like you wrote it
But it wasn't right
I sung for millions and I sung for tips
And all them sons of (b-word) on the Sunset Strip and
I was trying to find a new way to get to you
Trying to find a new way to make it true
Trying to find a new way
There we go long ago I know you remember
Yelling at me even though I never heard a word you'd say
That was me, absentee, you see I was always living
In the make-believe looking for another way to say I loved you
I've been your lover and I've been your beast
And your worst critic when you needed one least
And you cut me down and I make you cry,
I tried to change you and I still don't know why
Why, why do we go through this
I can see it in your eye that you're getting pissed
Don't ask me if I like your suggestion
If you don't want the answer, Baby
Then don't ask the question, I'm just
I was trying to find a new way to get to you
Trying to find a new way to make it true
Trying to find a new way