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Light Years (Live at Berkeley 9/25/18)

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Light Years (Live at Berkeley 9/25/18) Lyrics

[Spoken: Matt Berninger]
What's up?
Welcome back
Sorry it took us so long to come back again, if you weren't here last night
This is our dear friend Erin's last show with us for this tour
This whole show is for her
I'm not gonna mention anybody else

[Verse 1]
You were waiting outside for me in the sun
Laying down to soak it all in before we had to run
I was always ten feet behind you from the start
Didn't know you were gone 'til we were in the car

[Chorus]
Oh, the glory of it all was lost on me
'Til I saw how hard it'd be to reach you
And I would always be light years, light years away from you
Light years, light years away from you

[Verse 2]
I thought I saw your mother last weekеnd in the park
It could've been anybody, it was after dark
Evеryone was lighting up in the shadows alone
You could've been right there next to me, and I'd have never known
[Chorus]
Oh, the glory of it all was lost on me
'Til I saw how hard it'd be to reach you
And I would always be light years, light years away from you
Light years, light years away from you
Light years, light years away from you
Lightyears, light years away from you

[Spoken: Matt Berninger]
Erin's our tour manager so she
I think she was dealing with guestlist shit so she didn't even hear that
So someone tell her how pointed and moving that was
After she's done working, of course

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    Light Years (Live at Berkeley 9/25/18)
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November 29, 2019
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