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Wonderland

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If you could feel
How I must feel
The winds of quiet change
If you could see
What I must see
Still hidden in the rain

But when the thunder rolls
It comes and covers up my soul
And you will take my hand
And be with me in wonderland

Chorus:
I am an honest man
I need the love of you
I am a working man
I feel the winter too

If you could hear
What I must hear
Then nothing would replace
The fifty years of
sweat and tears
That never left a trace

But when I look at you I see
You feel the same way too
And you will take my hand and be
With me in wonderland

Chorus

You still remember other days
When every head was high
I watched that pride
be torn apart
Beneath a darker sky

With innocence within ourselves
We sing the same old song
And you will take my hand
And make believe it's wonderland
I need the love of you
I am a working man
I feel the winter too

Chorus

Wonderland (four
times, fading out)

Submitted by

elixir808 On Sep 13, 2007

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2007-09-13 20:27:24

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by xXbrokengirlXx

17y ago

I can't believe no one has commented on this breath taking song... I love the extended version best.

I once got my mate read it and she was crying before she could finish the 4th line

I think the song is about this guy who loves someone but they don't notice them and all he wants to do is show them that there is more to life, more to love

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by Tomtomp

4y ago

This song has been my favorite song since I was 17, when I first heard it.\n\nI\'m 40 now and it\'s only recently occurred to me how much depth and weight this song really has. This is not a young man\'s song.\n\nThe narrator feels the weight of his entire life bearing on him - his successes and failures, and he is looking at his chosen partner in life, and feeling glad they\'ve been by his side all this time.\n\nHe\'s made the best life he can, even if it wasn\'t the life he\'d planned or wanted when he was younger, and it\'s all the better for the presence person he\'s singing to.

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