Austin and Elliott: Listening Library

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The hardest work I've ever done I labored all in vain
The toughest love I've known was known by all as Liza Jane
All I had were promises when I knocked on her door
A stocking in her hand, she looked at me with scorn

Lord, Liza, here's some sugar cane
I wonder if it's sweet enough
To sweeten you up Liza Jane

I reached out for her hand, she recoiled and cursed
"Not even if you were the only man on God's gray Earth"
With a lovely look of pity, she wrung a rag and sighed
"You must be the dumbest thing that ever lived or died"

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One night I carried her in the rain for seven miles
I swear it was the first and only time I'd seen her smile
There's a baby in the backyard, a baby on her knee
I'll raise them like my own, but neither looks like me

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The children cry for mother, they never cry for me
They treat me like the stranger she said I'll always be
The essence of your soul is passed on as it is
The children love me even less than their mother did

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I may not know anything, but I know what love is
Love is something random, love is sad and sick
Love is so relentless, brutal, mad, and cruel
And love's a gift from heaven about to fall in you

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