Sheryl Crow "Always on Your Side"

This is a song by American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, from her 2005 album, Wildflower. While the original album version features her alone on lead vocals, this radio version is a duet with the British rock musician Sting*.

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*Sting is the stage name of Gordon Sumner, from Wallsend in North Tyneside, northeast England, first known as a member of the rock band The Police and subsequently as a solo artist.

Can you listen to the song and fill in the gaps?

My yesterdays are all …………………. ¹ and …………………. ²
But every now and then you …………………. ³ …..
‘Cause you were always …………………. ⁴ to be picked to play the game
But when your name was called, you …………………. ⁵
When you knew that I was …………………. ⁶ on your side …..

Well …………………. ⁷, so sweet and innocent
But my demons and my angels …………………. ⁸
Leavin’ all the …………………. ⁹ of the man you thought I’d be
Too afraid to hear the words I’d always feared
Leavin’ you with all your questions all these years …

But is there some place …………………. ¹⁰, some place …………………. ¹¹
Easy to start over …………………. ¹²
Or are you left to wonder, …………………. ¹³, eternally?
This isn’t how it’s really …………………. ¹⁴ …….
No, it isn’t how it’s …………………. ¹⁵ to be ….

Well they say that love is …………………. ¹⁶, but never is it clear,
How to pull it …………………. ¹⁷ and make it stay
…………………. ¹⁸ are free to fly, and so they fly away
And I’m left to …………………. ¹⁹ and wonder why
Even through it all, I’m always on your side.

But is there some place far away, some place where all is clear
Easy to start …………………. ²⁰ with the ones you hold so dear?
Or are you left to wander, …………………,. ………………… 21 ?
But this isn’t …………………. ²² really meant to be
No this isn’t how it’s really meant to be …

Well they say that love is in the air, never is it clear
How to …………………. ²³ and make it stay ……
Butterflies are free to fly, why do they fly away
Leavin’ me to carry on and wonder why ….
Was it you that …………………. ²⁴ wandering through this …………………. ²⁵
When you know that I was always on your side?

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