The Way That I Am lyrics

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Ashes
He's nothing but ashes
No feelings have lasted
No love remains
Ashes
That's all that our past is
He's nothing but ashes
From a cold old flame

I saw your face when
He waltzed in here
But those old embers
Haven't burned for years
The light that's shining
In my eyes
Is for the one that
I'm with tonight

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No, I don't blame you
For having some doubts
But when he left me

The alarm went off but I wasn't asleep
after tossing and turning all night what a relief
to go to work, get up and go to work
so I get onto the highway and head into town
there's one part of my life
I didn't let you tear down
yeah and that's my work-right now I'm going to work

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Yeah when the whistle blows I'll be there
life goes on even when it's not fair

the way you treat me baby
cheat and tell me lies
I guess I shouldn't care at all
but still I sympathize
cuz you got heart trouble
coming on
yeah you got heart trouble coming on
well you think you don't need me baby
but you're gonna miss me when I'm gone

you say that love can't touch you
you feel no pain at all
you think that you're above it baby
but I believe you'll fall

Well, she seemed alright by dawn's early light
Though she looked a little worried and weak
She tried to pretend he wasn't drinkin' again
But Daddy left the proof on her cheek
And I was only eight years old that summer
And I always seemed to be in the way
So I took myself down to the fair in town
On Independence Day

Well, word gets around in a small, small town

Don't tell me no stories
I don't wanna hear no lies
No reasons no excuses
None of your alibies.
Phone rings, I pick it up, nobody's on the line
I know she's waitin' for you
She's just bidin' her time
You'd have me believe it's just a night out with your friends
I know your going back to see her again

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You're stealing love
Living on life #9
Breaking my heart
Living on borrowed time

Don't need no copy of Vogue magazine
Don't need to dress like no beauty queen
High heels or sneakers he don't give a dang
My baby loves me just the way that I am
My baby loves me just the way that I am

He never tells me I'm not good enough
Just gives me unconditional love
He loves me tender and he loves me mad
He loves me silly and he loves me sad

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It's been awhile, since she's heard him say
"See you tonight", his usual way
There's always some place, he's gotta go
Somewhere he needs to be

It's not the same, now when they touch
She figures he's just working too much
Some how that makes it all ok
And gets her through another day

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She's heard the talk, all over town
She don't want to believe he's running around

Two strangers passing on the sidewalk
Barely brush each other's hand
He says, I'm sorry.
She says, Dont worry.
And that is how it all began.

A few short days and nights together,
And it's like they were meant to be.
Lying there with her
He softly whispers,
Just think what we were so recently.

Strangers
Strangers
World's greatest lovers
Last week we were strangers.

I know she must have cut you deep
she's gone but you won't let her leave
I know your heart has not healed yet
but sometimes I think you forget

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that wasn't me
that wasn't me
I'm not the one
who made love bring you to your knees
you can't love if you can't trust
her memory's hurt you long enough
let your heart see
that wasn't me

I can no longer pay the price

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Where I used to have a heart
feels like a mile wide ditch
I got a hole inside
the doctor just can't stitch
gone without a trace
you left a hollow space
there's not a stone to mark
where I used to have a heart

there were times when I would hold you
and feel the pounding in my chest
now I'm just as empty
as a canyon way out west
that's how deep I loved you
babe, I love you still