words & music by Paul Simon 1978 


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In the blue li

ght 

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Of the Belvede

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re Motel 

             
  Wondering as

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 the televisio

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n burns 

            
   How the hea

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rt approaches 

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what it yearns

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In a fe-ver 

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I distinctly h

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ear your voice

 
 

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Emerging from 

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a dream, the d

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ream returns 

            
   How the hea

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rt approaches 

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what it yearns

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After the rain

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 on the Inters

     
tate 

      
Headlights sli

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de past the mo

 
on 

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A bone-weary t

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raveler 

        
Waits by the s

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ide of the roa

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d 

          
     Where's h

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e going? 


Instrumental: 

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I dream we are

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 lying on the 

      
top of a hill 

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And headlights

          
 slide past th

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e moon 

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I roll in your

      
 arms 

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And your voice

             
 is the heat o

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f the night 

          
     I'm on fi

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re 


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   In a phone 

     
booth 

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In some local 

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bar and grill 

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Rehearsing wha

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t I'll say, my

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 coin returns 

            
   How the hea

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rt approaches 

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what it yearns

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   How the hea

    |         
rt approaches 

       |     
what it yearns

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