Background for Your Blue

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I think what I'm hearing is something I know
I never will be able to do
A sneaky feeling it won't be right
Until you get some guarantee there'll be a background for your blue

Well I come home after work
And you ask like you already knew
Well it was long, but longer still
Is the shadow that seems to be cast by your blue

Oh, you can tell me now, I'm right here
And I'm waiting
On the same couch, I'm all ears
And there's nothing to fear

It must have been your silhouette
That I saw slipping back behind the hill
In my dream I won't forget
In the place where shadows grow until they are real

And I knew where you were going
Down to wait by the well
For that other, your secret lover
Who promises to fill you -- he promises he'll be there still
Like someone you can count on

Oh, you can tell me now, I'm right here
And I'm waiting
On the same couch, I'm all ears
And there's nothing...
Ohh...
Yeah...

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