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Pearl’s Song Lyrics by Dave Rotheray

Answer Ballads

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Most of what follows is true
It's a story of someone you know
A woman who burns up like paper yet
Gathers drawn to the glow
And I don't wanna go to a movie
I don't wanna take in a show
Grinning through bifocals from
The middle of the very back row
They say being somebody is hard
And being nobody is worse
But being nobody is hardest of all
When you've been somebody first, somebody first
Somebody first, somebody first
Most of what follows is true
Please try to remember my name
A woman who burns up like paper yet
Gathers drawn to the flame
And I don't wanna go to a movie
No need for too wine or too dine
To shuffle along with the locals and
To stand at the back of the line
They say being somebody is hard
And being nobody is worse
But being nobody is hardest of all
When you've been somebody first, somebody first
Somebody first, somebody first
And I don't wanna go to a movie
No TV at your place or mine
Watching all of the hopeful ones
Dying a week at a time
They say being somebody is hard
And being nobody is worse
But being nobody is hardest of all
When you've been a somebody first, somebody first
Somebody first, somebody first
Somebody first
Somebody first
Somebody first
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Dave Rotheray

Dave Rotheray

About “Pearl’s Song” by Dave Rotheray

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"Pearl’s Song" appears on "Answer Ballads".

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