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A Number and a Name Lyrics by Linda Ronstadt

Hand Sown… Home Grown

1969

[Verse 1]
How many times have I read farewell lines
In the things that you never seemed to say?
How many times have I read those last lines
And wondered why it ended this way?
[Chorus 1]
Words of goodbye and all those loving lines
I must have been blind
And it seems to me a shame that the number and the name
Both have changed with the passing of time
[Verse 2]
How you would write about the bright lights
And your words always clouded up my eyes
How you would write about the bright lights
It's a wonder that I never realized
[Chorus 2]
Our race was run, now another's just begun
I must have been blind
And it seems to me a shame that the number and the name
Both have changed with the passing of time
[Verse 3]
When your letters stopped, the tears that I fought
How they came in the flood of memories
When your letters stopped, the tears that I fought
How they ran like the rivers to the seas
[Chorus 3]
Each sunny day you slip further away
I must have been blind
And it seems to me a shame that the number and the name
Both have changed with the passing of time
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Linda Ronstadt

Linda Ronstadt

About “A Number and a Name” by Linda Ronstadt

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"A Number and a Name" appears on "Hand Sown… Home Grown" in 1969.

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