Intro
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When I was a little boy, they would say to me, don't go in the world and play its bad company
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All they had was child and faith, let him grow and let him wait just to find out what it was to be free
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Now I'm over twenty one, growing up I've had my fun and I know the way it's got to be
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Baby lying in a womb are you free or in a tomb? Let me in, I feel I want to cry.
[Chorus]
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Oh that road is there. Oh that road is there, come on back, come on back.
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Wash your hands and up to bed, mind your manners or you're dead, mind the cars cos you've got school on Monday
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Put my trust in God, who is he I know not what? Something mummy said to me one Sunday.
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Maybe love is life but life is not something I need plenty of. Oh! I wish I'd never lived a day.
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Now there's no one near me now, tell me what to do and how, take me let me sing my cares away
[Chorus]
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Oh that road is there. Oh that road is there, come on back, back.
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Oh! I'm empty now; rainy pain has left me now. Think of what my people used to say.
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Black is black and white is white, which to choose and which is right, guide me to a place where I will stay.
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Wrap me up and keep me warm, hide myself far from the storm, sleep and love will keep my mind at rest.
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Only now I realise why my parents had to try. Love you all and keep you all my life.
[Chorus]
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Oh that road is there. Oh the road is there, come on back, back