Knocked Up movie - You Can't Fail Me Now lyrics

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Song by Loudon Wainwright III<br /><br>

I know that fan is moving air<br>

I can see it in your hair<br>

But I can't bear to breathe it in somehow<br>

I'll rise and fall with you<br>

Cause you can't fail me now,<br>

I'll rise and fall with you<br>

Cause you can't fail me now<br>

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Salt is sweet upon my mouth<br>

And dark thrwos sparks against my house<br>

The stain of love's a smudge upon my brow.<br>

But you see through me<br>

And you can't fail me now,<br>

You see right through me<br>

And you can't fail me now<br>

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I bit off more than I can chew<br>

It's something that I tend to do<br>

When fewer words are what we need and how<br>

You bite my tongue<br>

And you can't fail me now<br>

I rant and rail<br>

But you can't fail me now<br>

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I lost the thread among the vines<br>

And hung myself in story lines<br>

That tell the tales I never would allow<br>

God knows the name of every bird<br>

That fills my mind like angry words<br>

But you know all my secret heart avows...<br>

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We're taught to love the worst of us<br>

And mercy more than life, but trust me:<br>

Mercy's just a warning shot across the bow<br>

I live for yours<br>

And you can't fail me now,<br>

I live for your mercy<br>

And you can't fail me now,<br>

You can't fail me now.<br>

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