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Don’t Take No Pain from Me

Thank you Richard for the accidental pharase

David schell
Jun 04, 2024
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Don’t Take No Pain from Me

I was standing with a stranger
We were ducking out of the rain.
Water was running down the street,
falling into a sewer drain.

He said water goes into the river
and the river goes into the sea.
Hey man where do all our stories go?
Don’t take no pain from me.

I met a woman on the Sunset Strip.
She came to see the sidewalk of…

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