 Genius Lyrics
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Percy Sledge – Cover Me
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Cover me, cover me / Spread your precious love all over me / Oh, can't you see the need in me? / Oh, cover me, cover me / Hide me, hide me / Where no other can find me / Oh, I'm
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Percy Sledge – Spooky
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In the cool of the evening / When everything is getting kind of groovy / I call you up and ask you / If you like to go with me and see a movie? / First, you say no, you got some
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Percy Sledge – The Dark End Of The Street
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At the dark end of the street / That is where we always meet / Hiding in shadows where we don't belong / Living in darkness, to hide alone / You and me, at the dark end of the
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Percy Sledge – Feed the Flame
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[Verse] / Darling, we have built a fire / Out of need and strong desire / We must keep it burning / Only ashes will remain / Oh yes it will / Remember kisses feed the fire / And
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Percy Sledge – It Tears Me Up
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I see you walk with him / I see you talk to him / It tears me up / It tears me up / And start my eyes to cryin' / Oh, oh, I can't stop cryin' / I see him kiss your lips / And
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Percy Sledge – Rainbow Road
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I was born a poor, poor man / All my life I had hard-workin' hands / But I sang my song as I carried my load / 'Cause I had a dream about a Rainbow, Rainbow Road / Then one day, my
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Percy Sledge – Come Softly to Me
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Mm dooby do, dahm dahm, dahm do dahm ooby do / Dahm dahm, dahm do dahm, ooby do / Dahm dahm, dahm do dahm, ooby do / Dahm dahm, dahm ooh dahm / Mm dooby do / (Come softly, darling
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Percy Sledge – My Special Prayer
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While the choir sang, Ave Marie I was singing with all my heart / And I sent a special prayer, up to heaven / That you'll return to me before I fall apart / While the choir sings
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Percy Sledge – Warm And Tender Love
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Let me wrap you in my warm and tender love, yeah / Let me wrap you in my warm and tender love / Oh, I loved you for a long, long time / Darling, please say you'll be mine / And let
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Percy Sledge – You Really Got A Hold On Me
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I don't like you, but I love you / Seems that I'm always thinking of You / Tho you treat me badly, I love you madly / You really got a hold on me (You really got a hold on me
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Percy Sledge – Sudden Stop
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Walkin' out / Didn't talk it out / Now she's gone so you can't mark it out / I'm all alone and I must do without / All the love that I can't live without / Played along / Did her
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Percy Sledge – Out Of Left Field
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When least expected / Fate stumbles in / Bringing light to the darkness / Ohh, what a friend / I needed someone to call my own / Suddenly, out left field / Out left field, out left
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Percy Sledge – Love Me Like You Mean It
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Oh hey, boy with your hat back / Umm i kindda like that / If you wanna walk my way / I'mma shoot you straight up / Show me what you made of / I don't have time to waste on the boys
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Percy Sledge – That's How Strong My Love Is
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If I was the sun way up there / I'd go with love most everywhere / I'll be the moon when the sun goes down / Just to let you know that I'm still around / That's how strong my love
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Percy Sledge – Whiter Shade Of Pale
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We skipped the light fandango / Turnin' cartwheels across the floor / I was feeling kind of seasick / When the crowd called out for more / The room was humming harder / As the
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Percy Sledge – Take Time To Know Her
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I found a woman / I felt I truly loved / She was everything / I'd ever been dreaming of / But she was bad, I didn't know it / Her pretty smile never did show it / All I knew is
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Percy Sledge – I Stand Accused
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I stand accused of loving you too much / I hope, I sure hope it's not a crime / 'Cause I'm guilty / Oh, I hope that I never have to testify / If I do, everyone's gonna cry / That
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Percy Sledge – What Am I Living For
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What am I living for / If not for you / What am I living for / If not for you / What am I living for / If not for you / Oh, nobody else / Nobody else will do / What am I longing
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Percy Sledge – Oh How Happy
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Do roo, do roo, do roo, do roo do... / Oh how happy (you have made me) / Oh how happy (you have made me) / I have kissed your lips / A thousand times / And more times than i can
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Percy Sledge – (sittin' on) the dock of the bay
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Sittin' in the morning sun / I'll be sittin' when the evening comes / Watching the ships roll in / Then I watch 'em roll away again / I left my home in Georgia / Headed for the
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Percy Sledge – Try a Little Tenderness
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Sponsored links / Oh she may be weary / Them young girls they do get wearied / Wearing that same old miniskirt dress / But when she gets weary / You try a little tenderness / Oh
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Percy Sledge – Baby, Help Me
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[Verse] / Now that you're here / But you can't find another love / That's true and fine, oh yeah / [Chorus] / But you come runnin' back to me / And you get down on your knees / Hey
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Percy Sledge – Blue Water
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Now a man ain't suppose to cry / But with all this pain inside / All my eyes can see is blue water / No the world ain't suppose to be / Just a drowning sea / There's more for you
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Percy Sledge – Just Out of Reach
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(Just out of reach / Of my two empty arms) / Love that runs away from me / Dreams that just won't let me be / Blues that keeps on bothering me / Chains that just won't set me free
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Percy Sledge – If Loving You Is Wrong
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If lovin' you is wrong I don't wanna be right / If being right means being without you / I'd rather live a wrong doing life / Your mama and dad said / "It's a shame, it's a
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Percy Sledge – Between These Arms
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> / Between these arms / Is love and affection / Between these arms / Her heart beats for you / With these two eyes / I see your perfection / And these two lips / Want only you
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Percy Sledge – You Don't Miss Your Water
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In the beginning / You really loved me / But I was blind / And I could not see / But when you left me / Oh, how I cried / You don't miss your water / Till your well runs dry / I
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Percy Sledge – Blow Out the Sun
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Hey, wouldn't it be fun / If we could blow out the sun / And the loving that we found tonight / Won't disappear in the morning light / Our old friend, mister moon / Comes and goes
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Percy Sledge – High Cost Of Leaving
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> / I work hard all day long / To earn my money / But I might as well stay home / For the good it does me / Cause I can't buy back what I've lost / And I have to pay the cost / And
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Percy Sledge – I'm Hanging Up My Heart For You
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I'm gonna stop wasting time, honey / Being a run around / Chasing after every little girl / Thath lives in our town / I'm just take it easy, baby / I tell you what I'm / Gonna do
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Percy Sledge – Stop the World Tonight
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Stop the world tonight / Oh let me stay in your arms forever / And when all my dreams / Start to spin / Love, oh love, begin / And it's not like before / Oh this may never happen
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Percy Sledge – Behind Closed Doors
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My baby makes me proud, Lord, don't she make me proud / She never makes a scene by hanging all over me in a crowd / 'Cause people like to talk, Lord, don't they love to talk / But
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Percy Sledge – I'll Be Your Everything
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[Verse 1] / Wanna be your love maker / Wanna be the caretaker of your heart / Because I loved you right from the start / Be your water when you need a drink / Your lifesaver if you
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Percy Sledge – True Love Travels on a Gravel Road
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How many girls choose cotton dress worlds / When they could have satins and lace / And stand by her man, never once letting shade touch her face / How many hearts could live
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Percy Sledge – I've Been Loving You Too Long
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I've Been Loving You Too Long / To stop now / You are tired and you want to be free / My love is growing stronger / As you become a habit to me / Ooh. I've been loving you too long
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Percy Sledge – Walkin’ in the Sun
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Well, things have been goin' wrong long enough to know / When everything's just right / I've been walking in the dark long enough to know when / I've finally seen the light / I've
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