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I'm Getting Back Into Getting Back Into You

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I'm Getting Back Into Getting Back Into You Lyrics

Baby won't you take this magnet
Maybe put my picture back on the fridge
I must've been crazy to let you get away like you did
Like a brown bird nesting in a Texas casern
I got a point of view

And the kicker is that
I'm getting back
Into getting back
Into you

I guess over time we became ducks
I never seemed to see you much
Then the world turned and got away
We fell out of touch

I've been working at the airport bar
It's like Christmas in a submarine
Wings and brandy on a winter's night
I guess you wouldn't call it a scene

Now my ex-wife's living in the suburbs with her guru and her mom
Now she finds her consolation in the stardust of a barn
You can call it a spinoff, say it's a knockoff, title it part two

But I'm getting back
Into getting back
Into getting back into you

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artblot On Nov 13, 2005

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by devilonmyside

20y ago

yes yes yes!

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by MrMocha

19y ago

I see three glaring mistakes in the lyrics without having the song playing right now. "Like a brown bird nesting in a Texaco sign"... probably just an omission but the missing lyric in "Then the world turned, (time) got away" and finally "Now she finds her consolation in the stardust of a bong" Otherwise.. right on :)

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by BakeCarrots

15y ago

is it really "stardust of a bong"? Either way, gotta love this song.

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by MrGreen428 14y ago

It's definitely "bong". It's a play on song "Stardust" by Hoagy Carmichael.

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