A Night This Side Of Dying Lyrics - Carole King

I remember one young sister with rainbows in her eyes 

Standing on the corner with the afternoon's supply 

She spoke of other places, perhaps a better road 

Then she asked if I could tell her where they 

kept the mother lode 

Like a night this side of dying 

Her day's inside the dropper on the shelf 

When she hears her lifeline crying 

Not a thing you say can stop her 

When she just can't stop herself 

I remember that July, the panic and the heat 

The savage shine of summer, the trychnine in the street 

The way thay sold each other for a favor in glassine 

The best of friends sold brothers for a 

dime of quinine dreams 

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Like a night this side of dying 

Her day's inside the dropper on the shelf 

Like the shelter she's been buying 

Not a thing I've got can save her 

When she just can't save herself 

She just can't save herself 

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