 Genius Meanings
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Dan Fogelberg – Longer
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Dan Fogelberg wrote “Longer” while on vacation in Maui. It remains his biggest hit, peaking at #2 on the US Hot 100. It also topped Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart for a week
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Dan Fogelberg – Same Old Lang Syne
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Fogelberg wrote this song based on an incident in 1975 when he bumped into an old girlfriend from high school, Jill Anderson Greulich, at a convenience store in Peoria, Illinois on
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Dan Fogelberg – A Voice for Peace
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You know that everybody has a voice / And how they use it is their own free choice / In your glory I will not rejoice / If you choose the ways of war / If you choose the ways of
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Dan Fogelberg – Next Time
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One too many days / I've felt forgotten / And one too many nights / I've slept alone / And every time I watch the fruit turn rotten / I tell myself I'll try a little harder / Next
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Dan Fogelberg – Lonely In Love
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Some say that love is its own / Love is its own reward / But I can't help but believe / There's got to be more / A man needs a woman / To have and to hold / To love him in body
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Dan Fogelberg – Phoenix
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I have cried too / I have cried too long / I have cried too / I have cried too long / No more sorrow / Got to carry on / Found deep water / Before I'd even learned to swim / Found
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Dan Fogelberg – Song for a Carpenter
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Oh, he makes his life as a carpenter / He works his hands in wood / And he lives the way his granddad / Might have liked and understood / He goes to work each morning / And he
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Dan Fogelberg – Wishing on the Moon
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How many eyes will you search in sorrow / Seeking to borrow some sight of your own / How many lies will you have to suffer / Until you discover there's nobody home / How many roads
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Dan Fogelberg – Democracy
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There's a rumor that the president's dead / He had a tumor growing deep in his head / But it hasn't had the slightest effect on how he's doing his job / And there's these lessons
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Dan Fogelberg – The Last to Know
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Living in a house of cards / Praying the wind doesn't blow too hard / Giving in to differences / Straining to keep up appearances / Making believe the thread can be saved / You're
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Dan Fogelberg – Beggar's Game
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I saw her first in a beggar's game / Her eyes were wild but her / Laugh was tame / Those people knew her by / Another name / I knew that she'd be mine / I knew that she'd be mine
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Dan Fogelberg – Heart Hotels
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Well, there's too many windows / In this old hotel / And rooms filled with reckless pride / And the walls have grown sturdy / And the halls have worn well / But there is nobody
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Dan Fogelberg – Make Love Stay
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Now that we love / Now that the lonely nights are over / How do we make love stay? / Now that we know / The fire can burn bright or merely smolder / How do we keep it from dying
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Dan Fogelberg – Gypsy Wind
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I still recall the place / When I first felt your gypsy wind / Playing on my face / That summer's long since gone / But gypsy winds have ways of staying on / Voices from our past
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Dan Fogelberg – Face The Fire
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I hear the thunder / Three miles away / The island's leaking / Into the bay / The poison is spreading / The demon is free / And people are running from / What they can't even see
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Dan Fogelberg – Don't Lose Heart
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This life is heartless and it's rarely just / Full of sad betrayals and misplaced trust / And it can suck your spirit just as dry as dust / And steel your soul if you let it / Ooh
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Dan Fogelberg – Missing You
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Hard days I'm travelling / Alone for too long / Ooh, I'm missing you / I'm always somewhere / That I never belong / Ooh, I'm missing you / I'm moving so fast now / It doesn't seem
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Dan Fogelberg – Along the Road
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Joy at the start / Fear in the journey / Joy in the coming home / A part of the heart / Gets lost in the learning / Somewhere along the road / Along the road / Your path may wander
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Dan Fogelberg – Mountains To The Sea
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Well I spent two days in traveling / The Mountains to the Sea / I knew the change would do me good / And set my spirit free / I spent two nights in wondering / What it is you've
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