Hills and Valleys

The Rocket Summer

I'm on top of the world
I can see it all around me
Such beautiful words
Leaving in oceans
I can feel it
Never felt this before
Yeah, yeah

I got a beautiful woman
We're coming off of
The hard end of harder times
Gonna be startin' something
That gets us straight up outta here

I can fix it
Let me take us away
Yeah, we leave at night
We stay by day

Say you're with me
There's gold ahead
There's golden dreams
And life's hills and valleys
Yeah, will you hold on with me?
Let me take us
Let me take us away
All right

We drove out to California
Straight through the desert of Arizona
Sweet Texas, I'll kiss ya
Hope to be back
But now I gotta leave ya

I can fix it
Let me take us away
Yeah, we leave at night
We stay by day

Say you're with me
There's gold ahead
There's golden dreams
And life's hills and valleys
Yeah, will you hold on with me?
Let me take us
Let me take us away

I wouldn't know just how sweet this tastes now
No, if at first I did not go
The bitter times, the bitter places
I'll stay and learn the new battles
But, for now, we're here

Say you're with me
There's gold ahead
There's golden dreams
And life's hills and valleys
Yeah, will you hold on with me?
Let me take us
Let me take us away
Let me take us
Let me take us away
Let me take us
Let me take us away


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    Nevermind her says "alright" instead of over and before "I got a beautiful woman" he says "huh".

    MCSmateon October 25, 2009   Link

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