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Maria, you're still wild and restless 
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And I can just see ya ridin' in a rodeo 
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You might even make it down to Texas 
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Or you might head out west to New Mexico 
 
 
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So pack up all of your belongings 
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A pick-up will take you where you wanna go 
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You can ride out when you hear mountains calling 
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Out to Canada or the canyons of Colorado 
 
 
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New York City was always your home 
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But in your heart you know you were born to roam 
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And you're gonna leave as soon as you get the money 
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After you sell everything you own 
 
 
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Maria, is loneliness a virtue 
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Or does it steal you blind and leave you split apart 
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Maria, can you give me an answer 
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Are the songs we sing worth the broken heart 
 
 
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The highway has always been your lover 
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And someday you may know his name 
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Wherever you stay it wouldn't really matter 
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'Cause all those cities start to look the same 
 
 
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Some folks will try to take your heart away 
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And just when you think you've really got it made 
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You wake up and find madness in the morning 
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But damn the pain and damn those restless days 
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Damn the pain and damn those restless days