You Can't Go On Song Lyrics and Chords by Earl Thomas Conley
You Can't Go On
Recorded by Earl Thomas Conley
Written by Earl Thomas Conley and Randy Scruggs
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So once
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again the party's
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over
You
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don't even go away
But you knew
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before we
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started
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It would
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end this
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way
She was
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so close to
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perfection
But you
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can't make
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up your
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mind
Where the
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feeling loves di
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rection
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Just keeps
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love
be
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hind
Cause you can't go on like a rolling stone
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Your love at chance to love is gone
You
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beat every heart that
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comes along this
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way
So you've
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been shot down from love before
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can't say no if your heart says more
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You're gonna find your
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self alone some
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day
Now out of
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all your many
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lovers
Oh could
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you go back again
After
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being so busy
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going
You
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don't know
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where to
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be
Do you
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dream of someone
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tender
And the
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way it
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makes you
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feel
Or
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can you still re
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member
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Love was when
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love was
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real
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FAQ
Who sang the the song You Can't Go On?
- The song You Can't Go On 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.
