its amazing how far music can come.. 24 years after it released and its one of the most heartfelt songs ive heard
Here I am back home again
I'm here to rest
All they ask is where I've been
Knowing I've been West
I'm the family's unowned boy
Golden curls of envied hair
Pretty girls with faces fair
See the shine in the Black Sheep Boy
If you love me, let me live in peace
Please understand
That the black sheep can wear the golden fleece
And hold a winning hand
I'm the family's unowned boy
Golden curls of envied hair
Pretty girls with faces fair
See the shine in the Black Sheep Boy
I'm the family's unowned boy
Golden curls of envied hair
Pretty girls with faces fair
See the shine in the Black Sheep Boy
I'm here to rest
All they ask is where I've been
Knowing I've been West
I'm the family's unowned boy
Golden curls of envied hair
Pretty girls with faces fair
See the shine in the Black Sheep Boy
If you love me, let me live in peace
Please understand
That the black sheep can wear the golden fleece
And hold a winning hand
I'm the family's unowned boy
Golden curls of envied hair
Pretty girls with faces fair
See the shine in the Black Sheep Boy
I'm the family's unowned boy
Golden curls of envied hair
Pretty girls with faces fair
See the shine in the Black Sheep Boy
Lyrics submitted by yukino031902
Black Sheep Boy Lyrics as written by Tim Hardin
Lyrics © Spirit Music Group
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"And I rode into Baltimore and I found a hotel room where I tried to escape you, but the phone line wouldn't go through"
this part's so heart-wrenching. trying to escape that threatening darkness inside, by calling up loved ones, but the phone is never picked up. mannnn