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DOROTHY - VIDEO

(C. Daniel Boling)
November 4, 2014
C. Daniel Boling -- © 2010 PERFECTLY STABLE MUSIC/ASCAP

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