James Taylor - Line ´Em Up lyrics

Album: Hour Glass (1997)

I remember Richard Nixon back in ´74
And the final scene at the White House door
And the staff lined up to say good-bye
Tiny tear in his shifty little eye
He said nobody knows me
Nobody understands
These little people were good to me
Oh I am going to shake some hands

CHORUS:
Somebody line em up
Line em all up
Line em up
Line em all up
Line em up
Line em all up
Line em up
Line em all up

At that time my heart was all broke
I looked like ashes & smelled like smoke
And I turned away from my loving kind
Try to leave my body & live in my mind
But it is much too much emotion
To hold it in your hand
They´ve got waves out on the ocean
They are going to wear away the land

- Chorus -

Oh I have seen corn in Kansas
And I have seen picket fences
And certain cowboy dances
I have gone lining up for shows
I have been safely placed in rows
Sure I know how it goes

Another day goes by
Little time machine
I am breaking my brain
Over what it might mean
Just to claim the time
And to turn away
To make today today

Who waits for you
Lonely tired old toad
It is your life laid out before you
Like the broken white line down the center of the doggone road

- Chorus -

Yea, big moon landing
People all standing up
Smiles for the loved ones
They go walking on down the aisles
Each re-engages stepping into the sun
I watch them turn like pages
One by one by one

- Chorus -

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