** for the recorded key**
Intro: A
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It's cold this time of year and the people in this city make it colder
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They've all forgotten what it means to lend a hand or cry on a shoulder
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In this land of opportunity we fight like hell to make an extra dime
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It would surely get the best of me without the heaven in my woman's eyes
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It's the heaven in my woman's eyes that
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Makes life's hell a better place to be
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It's the heaven in my woman's eyes
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That gives the inspiration that I need
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Sometimes it seems a man is born to lose no matter how hard he tri--es
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Life on earth would sure be hell without the heaven in my woman's eyes
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Simplicity was once a way of life but now it's buried with our past
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A dollar used to go a long long way but now it just goes fast
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Oh how I wish that I could be as free as our union eagle flies
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But the only time I'm free is when I view the heaven in my woman's eyes
REPEAT CHORUS
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Life on earth would sure be hell without the heaven in my woman's eyes