The Byrds

Everybody's Been Burned

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Everybody has been burned before
Everybody knows the pain
Anyone in this place can tell you to your face
why you shouldn´t try to love someone

Everybody knows it never works
Everybody knows and me
I know that door that shuts just before
you get to the dream you see

I know it all too well how to turn, how to run
how to hide behind a bitter wall of blue
But you die inside if you chose to hide
So I guess instead I'll love you

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planetearth On Apr 12, 2004

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by rosiekz

15y ago

timeless.

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by Sumflow

14y ago

Dave rarely does this song in public, if ever. I think it is too painful for him. I don't know how the Byrds ever got it out of him. It shows what great song writer he really is. Neil has nothing as good. It speaks of a love of his that died under mysterious circumstances back when the Byrds just got going.

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by rockboy52

11y ago

I'm shocked that this song is credited to Crosby alone - with the "pie-slicing" that McGuinn mandated due to his desire for control in the Byrds, it got harder and harder for Crosby to get his songs out - that's one of the reasons for his unhappiness and eventual departure/firing -but this was so good that McGuinn couldn't touch it - the magnificent bass line by Hillman is truly as melodic as anything McCartney ever did, and McGuinn's solo is very sensitive - it captures Crosby's mood - the other comments here are dead-on correct

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