Things look better from a distance
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12 Things look better from a distance (3.28)
A cautionary tale for guitar... but that oompah band keeps muscling in... put that trobone away before you break something!
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See that moon a-shining pearly white up in the sky
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Couldn’t be more perfect even if it tried
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But get up close it’s full of dust there isn’t any air
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You’d be left a-wondering what the hell you’re doing there
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Chances are - things look better from afar
You see that snowy mountain glistening white against the blue
You might be tricked to thinking hey that’s the place for you
But when you feel the wind howling twenty-eight below
You’d have to start a wondering why you’d wanna go
Chances are - things look better from afar
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Things look better from a distance, it must be one of nature’s laws
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Things look better from a distance, easy to deceive those eyes of yours
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Take heed of my insistence, proximity shows up the flaws
You see that dark-eyed beauty passing cross the street
Seems like she’s exactly just the girl you’d like to meet
But when you see beneath the camouflage and paint
Precisely what you thought that she was is exactly what she ain’t
Chances are - things look better from afar
Things look better from a distance, it must be one of nature’s laws
Things look better from a distance, easy to deceive those eyes of yours
Take heed of my insistence, proximity shows up the flaws
But maybe there’s a lesson to put us in our place
Pr’haps we ourselves weren’t born with such a countenance of grace
If we get too picky we’ll be left out on the ground
So take a long deep breath and turn that telescope around
Chances are - things look better from afar