Sweetie Little Jean

Album: Tell Me I'm Pretty (2015)
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  • Sweetie Little Jean, where did you go?
    Everyone's been searching high and low
    And your mother's worried sick
    Dearest daddy's lost his grip
    While the whole world's watching
    Candlelight vigils being held in silence
    On the channel four
    And they knocked on every door
    Every place you've been before

    How long will we let it go?
    I think we should just let go

    I, I want you back
    Let's get back
    Lay my weary head against your bones
    Where all our troubles will be dead and gone

    How long will we let it go?
    I think we should just let go

    Has melancholy taken you for good?
    You know that I would save you if I could
    Watched your laughter turn to tears
    Then you vanished in thin air
    Well, we pinned your missing persons picture up
    On every mother-loving post
    How's it feel to be a ghost?
    You're the one I love the most

    I, I want you back
    Let's get back
    Lay my weary head against your back
    Where all our troubles will be laid to rest

    I pushed and I pulled 'til I pushed you aside
    Now all that is left are the tears that you cried
    I'm sorry, love, for all of the damage done
    My only hope is someday to be back beside you

    I, I want you back
    Let's get back
    Lay my weary head against your bones
    Where all our troubles will be dead and gone

    How long will we let it go?
    I think we should just let go Writer/s: Daniel Andrew Tichenor, Daniel Quine Auerbach, Donald Bradley Shultz, Jared Lloyd Champion, Matthew Ray Shultz
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Wixen Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Ezra MotzSuch a great song
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