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Just Across The Way

This version of Just Across The Way was released by Waylon Jennings in 1970.

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Just across the way a house is dark
I can hardly see
Just a cross the way lives a girl
Who’s so in love with me
But I’m such a bitter soul
Who’s mem’ries seemed to always get their way
So I live here with my memories.

She lives there with her love just across the way
Just across the way I can see her in the window watching me
With her face rest to the pain
And her eyes look more tearstained every day

But I’m such a bitter soul
Who’s mem’ries keep standing in her way
I’m so lonely with my memories
She’s lonely with her love just across the way

Just across the way
Might as well be in the heavens on a star
We’re just close enough together
To see just what far apart we are
But I’m such a bitter soul
Who’s mem’ries keep standing in the way
I’m so lonely with my memories
She’s lonely with her love just across the way
Just acoss the way just across the way…

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The lyrics for Just Across The Way are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1970 song by Waylon Jennings. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Just Across The Way have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Just Across The Way - Waylon Jennings and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

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