Written by Bruce Springsteen
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We met down in the valley, where the wine of love and destruction flowed
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There in that curve of darkness where flowers of temptation grow
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I left the rest for the others it was you and nothing else
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You felt so good to me baby, good as life itself
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You were life itself, rushing over me
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Life itself, the wind in black elms
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Life itself, in your heart and in your eyes
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I can't make it without you
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I knew you were in trouble, anyone could tell
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You carried your little black book from which all your secrets fell
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You squandered all your riches, your love, your beauty and your wealth
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Like you had no further use for, for life itself
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You were life itself, rushing over me
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Life itself, the wind in black elms
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Life itself, in your heart and in your eyes
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I can't make it without you
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Why do the things that we treasure most slip away in time
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Till to the music we grow deaf and to God's beauty blind
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Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart
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Till we fall away in our own darkness, stranger to our own hearts
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You were life itself, rushing over me
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Life itself, the wind in black elms
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Life itself, in your heart and in your eyes
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I can't make it without you
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So here's one for the road
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Here's one to your health
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And to life itself, rushing over me
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Life itself, the wind in black elms
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Life itself, in your heart and in your eyes
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I can't make it without you
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