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Outside Looking In*
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Everywhere I see the signs pointing one direction
No more twists or crooked turns leaving room for doubt
Where I used to take the time for quiet and reflection
Now, I only hear the noise of what I am without
I see them walking hand in hand and my eyes just want to linger
On those golden wedding bands wrapped around their fingers
By the time I turn away I feel it once again
I'm back in this familiar place, oustide looking in
Baby, all the tears between us couldn't fill the spaces
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And all the words we grasped at they just fell away
I kept waiting on forgiveness to fix the broken places
But nothing even like it ever came my way
And tonight I drove around and the street came up before me
I took a turn and then I found this old house coming toward me
I heard the sound a heart must make when a memory's caving in
Oh, baby, what a hungry place, outside looking is
It's the hardest kind of need that never knows a reason
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Are we such a lonely breed or just born in a lonely season
Baby, it's all in the eyes, it's where the reckoning begins
It's where we linger like a sigh, it's where we long to be pulled in
It's where we learn to say goodbye without saying anything
Standing on the borderlines, outside looking in
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