In the Shelter
By: Jimmy Buffett
1971

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In the shelter
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In the mornin' as the sun is brightly gleaming
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I heard her crying out,  "What is it all about?
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I just don't know, but I can't go back home"

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Lonely princess
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All the days out on your own are growing empty
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Nothing is going well
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If you could only tell them how you feel
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But they're too real to understand

Chorus:
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Too many trite expressions
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Ending in forced rejections long ago
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To many innocent faces
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In too many far out places somethings wrong
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Let me tell you that somethings wrong
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It's been that way so long, and it's a shame

On the street car
To the city where she knows she may lose it all
Riding for just a dime, takin' her own sweet time
And knowing well that this could be her final fall

Past the boutique
To the alley down the river, people pass her by
She sits on a big gray rock, takes off her boots and socks
Not knowin' what she will do next just starts to cry

Chorus:
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Too many wild rejections
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Endin' in angry questions from her dad
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Too many T.V. dinners
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Ah, everyone loves a winner, but she was lost
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No one knows the trials she had

(Repeat first verse, then)
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Hell, I just don't know,  but I can't go back home               (fade)