Don't worry
Everybody in the room notices you
Sit back and relax
The night is early
We are about to overdo it
So come and tell me something that you've already told me
'Cause everybody's already heard your lovely stories
I'm hoping some of them are true

I've been losing lots of keys lately,
I don't know what that means
But maybe I've been better off with things that can't be locked at all
I've been feeling kind of sea sick lately,
See you reaching to me gonna save me
You were me, I would much rather take the fall

The world has its ways
To quite us down
The world has its ways

To quiet us down comes the rain
Down comes our spirits again
But Down comes the strength
To lift us up and then

Been going up when now
For to long
Forget how
To let go
Seems to hard
To late now
To turn around
The world has its ways
To quite us down
The world has its ways
To quiet us down comes rain
Down comes our spirits again
Down comes the strength
To lift us up and then


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Losing Keys Lyrics as written by Jack Hody Johnson

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    I think Jack is trying to say that, in trying to make our lives more simple, we have really made them more complicated. When something happens....like "losing your keys" or cell phone, etc. we realize how much we rely on these items. Its funny how the world really does "have it's way to quite us down" when we lose these things. We realize how much power they have to us, yet they are things that we "cant let go" of because its "too late now". We can turn around the technologies that we have brought into our lives. Just what I think....who knows?

    z115491on February 07, 2008   Link

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