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Don't Let it Happen to You (Bonus Track)

from The Way It's Always Been by Paul Ventura

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(chorus)
will you come along
and i'll sing you a song
like when we were both young
and the world was all ours

could you once not let on
just once don't let it happen to you

happen to you


june came on like a boss
as if to whisper that all is not lost
but i waste it just blaming horizons
the moment is gone

i don't track much the days
of empty rooms and a band that still played
with the flower that blew out i shrank down
with no way to pay

(prechorus)
when i'd wake you
with hammers and strings

when i'd save you
not from anything

just so sure you
should be smiling when i'm gone

(chorus)
will you come along
and i'll sing you a song
like when we were both young
and the world was all ours

could you once not let on
just once don't let it happen to you

but you sent them along
cos you're still holding on
swore the words were all wrong
and the colors all gone

cos you can't once let on
no you won't it happen to you


here's a two sided town
where dreams are lost
but where nothing gets found

and i spent what i meant to get out
to get you to swoon

and i'm drinking all night
i missed my twenties so i'm living them tonight
in the seconds between bad and worse
i'm chasing them too

(prechorus)
and i'll make you
with chords and with strings

i'll replace you
with crowds who will sing

the good of you
i'll swear you're smiling
when you're gone

(instrumental)

(chorus)
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but you sent them along
cos you're still holding on
swore the words were all wrong
and the colors all gone

cos you can't once let on
no you won't it happen to you

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from The Way It's Always Been, released February 19, 2021

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