Lend me an ear I'll tell you a story<br />
'Bout a man who didn't know how to be<br />
Joined a travellin' circus from PEI to BC<br />
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I was playing dead every morning<br />
I was taking dives every night<br />
Someone came and swept me off my feet in midflight<br />
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Now without a love I really got nothing<br />
Without a love I'd hang up my shoes<br />
It'd be a world of suffering<br />
If this one I was ever to lose<br />
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So I'm hanging on with all of my power<br />
I'm hanging on as tight as a noose<br />
Around the midnight hour<br />
She said remember that I'm easily bruised<br />
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I've heard everything that I wanted<br />
Had so much I threw it away<br />
She could see that what I needed was never there anyway<br />
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Now everything around me is shifting<br />
I'm running like a child through a maze<br />
But I'm never lost completely 'cause an angel keeps me safe<br />
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Lord, without a love I'm dead in the water<br />
Without a love my aim is untrue<br />
My blood gets hotter and hotter<br />
At the thought of leaving this angel blue<br />
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I'm hanging on with all of my power<br />
It's looking like our bodies might fuse<br />
And when our cries got louder<br />
She said 'Remember that I'm easily bruised.'<br />
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When I can't let go<br />
And if I love too hard I'll hurt my baby so<br />
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Now everything makes sense at the moment<br />
And the moment's independent of time<br />
But who decides where truth resides<br />
Your guess is as good as mine<br />
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So how 'bout a sip of the good stuff<br />
How 'bout 'nother round on me<br />
If this moment lasts forever<br />
Then the truth we might just see<br />
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But without a love I don't have an inkling<br />
I'd be howling every night at the moon<br />
And if the stars stop twinkling<br />
The end will sure be coming soon<br />
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So I'm hanging on with all of my power<br />
In the garden where we're all... <br />
Any fruit or flower<br />
She said remember that I'm easily bruised<br />
Remember that I'm easily bruised<br />
Remember that I'm easily bruised