If I Could Make It Work

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    I sit on a piano stool, and I make up songs for these men
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    Who come in with dust on their faces and mud on their boots
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    From these places that I'll never go.
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    I sleep in a rented bed, with a woman who gives me
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    What little I get of the love that we'd like to imagine
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    Is left of the love that we never did know.
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    I slip out and scribble a note that reads like a million bucks.
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    It's a four cent nickel for my dime store thief
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    But it sure reads good

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    And If I could make it work in life like it works on paper.
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    If the love that I describe could be anything but words
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    Then I would wipe my eyes, I'd dry this ink,
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    I'd trade my pen in on a pair of wings.
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    And I would, I would fly
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    If I could only make it work in life

    And at the end of every night, I add up the tips
    That account for what might not come down to a thing
    That amounts to a life, and the sum of it all
    I'm afraid is less than what I know
    I need to slip beneath the surface of my forgeries
    Where I buried my hopes with sometimes my dreams
    Still stir me and steal me away.
    And I can still hear Dineh Bikeyah call
    Just like when we were kids.
    And I could tell you all about it in a song.
    But Lord, I wish that