Mary Chapin Carpenter

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If it seems like I've been lost in let's remember
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If you think I'm feeling older and missing my younger days
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Oh, then you should have known me much better
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Cause my past is something that never
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Got in my way oh no
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Still I would not be here now if I never had the hunger
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And I'm not ashamed to say the wild boys were my friends
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Cause I never felt the desire 'til their music set me on fire

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And then I was saved, yeah
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that's why I'm keeping the faith
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Keeping the faith

We wore matador boots
Only Flagg Brothers had them with the Cuban heel
Iridescent socks with the same color shirt
And a tight pair of chinos
I put on my shark skin jacket
You know the kind with the velvet collar
And ditty-bop shades
I took a fresh pack of Luckies
And a mint called Sen-Sen
My old man's Trojans
And his Old Spice after shave
Combed my hair in a pompadour
Like the rest of the Romeos wore

A permanent wave yeah
We were keeping the faith
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Keeping the faith

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You can get just so much from a good thing
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You can linger too long in your dreams
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Say goodbye to the oldies but goodies
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Cause the good old days weren't always good
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And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems

Learned stickball as a formal education
Lost a lot of fights nut it taught me how to lose O.K.
I heard about sex but not enough
I found you could dance and still look tough anyway
I found out a man ain't just being macho
Ate an awful lot of late night drive-in food drank a lot of take-home pay
I thought I was the Duke of Earl when I made it with a red-haired girl

In a Chevrolet
We were keeping the faith
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Keeping the faith

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You know the good old days weren't always good
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And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems

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Now I told you my reasons for the whole revival
Now I'm going outside to have an ice cold beer in the shade
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I'm going to listen to my 45's, ain't it wonderful to be alive
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When the rock 'n' roll plays Yeah
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When the memory stays Yeah
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I'm keeping the faith
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Keeping the faith...

Dan Morris
dmorris@cs.stanford.edu
http://techhouse.brown.edu/dmorris