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( Breakup song lyrics )
BACKING UP
Copyright © 2000 - mickterry.com

1: The trash can's overflowing.
The bathroom sink is clogged.
& every room looks ransacked
as if I'd just been robbed.
Dirty dishes to the ceiling.
Dirty clothes dropped everywhere.
My whole damned life is backing up
since you're gone & I just don't care.

2: It's not like me to cherish
the junk you've left behind
or hold in such high reverence
the way things were one time.
And it's not my style for pining
or to wait for your return.
My whole damned life is backing up
& you'd think that I would have learned.

CHORUS:
Backing up, piling up, overflowing, too.
There's much more substance in my life
since I don't have you.
Backing up, piling up, overflowing, too.
There's much more substance in my life
since I'm without you.

3: Now, trash day's every Wednesday.
It's not that I forgot.
It's not that I'm not thinking.
I think of you a lot.
& I think of all the fun times,
all the places we had been.
My whole damned life is backing up
& I tend to just stay within.
CHORUS:

4: My neighbors haven't seen me.
They're not sure I'm alive.
Eviction notice posted.
Who cares if I survive?
& who cares what ever happened
to the love that we once had?
My whole damned life is backing up
& I don't think it's all that bad.

Copyright © 2000  MICK TERRY  Silent Tree Music  All rights reserved
[ Reprinted here by permission of the composer-lyricist ]   BMI
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To other breakup love song lyrics:   ON THE ROPES
YOUR LEAVING
MORNING LIGHT
HIDDEN CORNERS
GET THE FEELING
WISHFUL DRINKING
MAYBE WE'VE HURT
THAT'S GOTTA HURT
TALKING TO MYSELF
YOU WERE THE BEST
I SOLD MY WIFE ON eBAY
GOODBYE WAS ALL SHE WROTE
GUESS WHAT I FOUND 'NEATH THE DIRTY FRIDGE?
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