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DOROTHY - VIDEO
DOROTHY (IF I ONLY HAD THE HEART)
©2014 C. Daniel Boling
PERFECTLY STABLE MUSIC / ASCAP
There’s no place like home
That’s the way the story goes
And you can’t get there from here
As far as anybody knows
It’s each man for himself
Devil take those with the least
Skipping hand in hand to hell
Through the belly of the beast
Dorothy is getting so much older
She wouldn’t recognize the Land of Oz today
That dreary Kansas prairie couldn’t hold her
She had dreams only her nightmares could betray
If I only had the heart
If I only had the brain
If I could pluck my courage up and take the chance
Expect no invitation
Accept no condemnation
Tug those ruby slippers on and try to dance
Where do we go now
Are we who we thought we'd be
You still look like you
Most days I still feel like me
Have we really been
On our own here all along
We stayed on those yellow bricks
So tell me, what the hell went wrong
Dorothy is getting so much older
So many things have changed in all these years
Thought she’d be all right just like the Wizard told her
But who among us outgrows all our childhood fears
If we only had the heart
If we only had the brain
If we could pluck our courage up and take the chance
Expect no invitation
Accept no condemnation
Tug those ruby slippers on and try to dance
When the emeralds all turn plastic
And the tin’s all gone to rust
We’ve given up on Glinda
Coming back to rescue us
When you’re the only one left I can trust
If I only have the heart
If I only have the brain
If I can pluck my courage up and take the chance
Expect no invitation
Accept no condemnation
Tug these ruby slippers on and try to dance