Release Me

2000 Milwaukee, WI

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Can't say I wasn't lookin'
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Can't say I couldn't see
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She bumped into my backside
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and became a part of me

I wish that she was ugly
Or I wish that she was mean
But just as luck would have it
She's the prettiest girl I'd seen

I should have left her standin'
At the bar all by herself
She didn't need to smile that way
She cooked it like a chef

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I need you more than a baseball cap needs sun to give it a job
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I need you more than light needs a switch to turn it on
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I need you more than any… tire needs a road
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So come on back baby
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Release me
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Release me, from this load

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I stayed with her that evening
We didn't sleep a wink
I'd like to say we talked all night
But we didn't even think

I was goin' her way
She was goin' mine
I thought that it might bind us
But she was just lookin' for a real good time

We landed in Valhalla
Might have been Kalamazoo
I was looking to build a fence
She was looking at Timbuktu

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It seemed that we were happy
She smiled all the time
But the corners in her smile
Turned up each time around

Valhalla wasn't Reno
And Valhalla wasn't Peru
Valhalla was Valhalla
Far short of Timbuktu

I never lost the luster
For the way that we first met
She never saw me more
Than someone to forget

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Pontificators tell you
Your life is far from through
But learned men read books
While I was readin' you

These stories often finish
With tales of hero and woe
This one doesn't finish
Ain't no place for it to go

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