Your Wild Years

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[Verse]

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Long for the words with hearts and wings
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Something familiar when you miss everything
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You rest your head against the window pane
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Feet on the dash through the steady rain
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I drove you home while you slept in the front seat
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After a show at the Stone Pony
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Watch you awake so god damn sweetly
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Over the Walt Whitman Bridge back to Philly

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[Verse]

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I toss and turn at four in the morning
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Petrified of where our future's going
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'Cause you're the kind of girl that deserves the world
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I'm just the kind of guy that promises the world
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So I fix a drink nice and strong in the kitchen
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Something quick that'll cure my conscience
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Creep back to bed and I kiss your forehead
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Maybe everything is fine and it's all in my head

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[Chorus]

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A little Irish in your blood
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A little Polish in your name
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A little Boston in your attitude
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Just the way you were raised
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A little Irish in your blood
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A little Polish in your name
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A little Boston in your attitude
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Just the way you were raised
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Just the way you were raised
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Just the way you were raised
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Just the way you were raised
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Just the way you were raised

[Interlude]

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[Verse]

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We drove up to Massachusetts together
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Your old house was just like you remember
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We stayed in your adolescent room
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Rummaged through the boxes labeled "former you"
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The souvenirs of happiness in the moment
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Your wild years that you often mention
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The sands of time in an hourglass
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That you're always begging for back
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I got drunk in the afternoon
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with your father in the living room
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As the television broke the silence
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You smiled, know that I was trying the best that I can do

[Chorus]

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A little Irish in your blood
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A little Polish in your name
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A little Boston in your attitude
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Just the way you were raised
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A little Irish in your blood
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A little Polish in your name
                                 C
A little Boston in your attitude
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Just the way you were raised
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Just the way you were raised
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Just the way you were raised
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Just the way you were raised
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Just the way you were raised