Sir Phoenix

I said "I love you"
She began to cry
She said she needed a friend
I said "I'll try"
Soon we said nothing
Somehow I never wondered why

(chorus)
You see she left me
she left me
I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone

I'd love her always
She didn't know
I tried patience
Let a friendship grow
I tried ot keep her
That's what made her go
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Beauty and the beast
is how it seemed to be
A like like hers
ain't meant for guys like me
Some call me crazy
Some politely call me free
But either way you see
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I'm trying to forget you but it just won't work
Think I'm losing my mind, think I'm going beserk
I love you with a passion that you just don't know
And I kinda wish right now that I was telling you so
I could rant, or rave, or play some little game
But when I look into your eyes, it all seems the same
That you weren't meant for me, and that's a sad but true fact
Now I don't care how I look and I don't care how I act
Oh, you set me free, I'm a man amoung men
But when I think of what I miss, it starts all again ...

Now alone in the darkness of each new day
My heart is on it's own
I wanna rip it form my chest and throw it away
Watch this bassman take me home...

a low branch
touching water
Feels the currents take
a mighty river bends her
But she won't break
no she won't
no she won't break

I said a candle's
flame she dances
when a sudden
tempest blows
She dwindles and dims
against the cold, cold wind
and then she grows
and then she grows
I said she grows

I may never understand her
Her secret is not to know
Nothing for me to do with a thought or two
But I just love to watch her grow
I said I love to watch her grow...

I guess someday
Love will soon be here
and maybe then
I'll see things more clear
I guess I got excited
cause it felt so near
And
(chorus)

But I know I'd give my life
Just to hold her now
And who knows...
I might see her around

Hopes can always go up
Tears can only come down
(chorus)

(song written by blues traveler off the "life from the fall" cd.)