The Closer You Are Song Lyrics and Chords by Earl Thomas Conley
The Closer You Are
Recorded by Earl Thomas Conley
Written by Earl T. Conley, Clint Daniels, Bat McGrath
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I can't get you out of
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mind
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hurts more than I
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expected
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sure a lasting
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impression
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On this heart of
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mine
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gonna take a lot more than
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tears to help me get
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over
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weight of the world on my
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shoulders
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out you by my
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side
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more I think
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about
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harder it is to con
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ceal
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pretend I'm not lost with
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out
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seeing you makes it so
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real
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closer you are the
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farther away I
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feel
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always so easy
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on my own
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Man I used to have that down
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laugh I'd dance and I
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I don't do that
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now
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more I think
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about
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harder it is to con
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out
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seeing you makes it so
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real
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closer you are the
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farther away I
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feel
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closer you are the
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farther away I
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FAQ
Who sang the the song The Closer You Are?
- The song The Closer You Are was sang by Earl Thomas Conley.
Who is Earl Thomas Conley?
- Earl Thomas Conley (October 17, 1941 - April 10, 2019) was an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for RCA Records. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Conley also charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, of which eighteen reached Number One. His eighteen Billboard Number One country singles during the 1980s marked the most Number One hits by any artist in any genre during that decade, excluding Alabama and Ronnie Milsap.
