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Surrender
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To win you must fight, or so they say
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But with love things never seem to work that way.
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With love you can't win
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If love can't get in
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And it can't pierce the heart of a defender.
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To win in love you must surrender.
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If you're angry then you can't surrender, no.
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Your unwilling surrender's just a show
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And unwillingly sweet means certain defeat
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Better a fighter than a soft-spoken contender
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To win in love you must surrender.
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Now, I can be stubborn and draw the line
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But now I've learned to pray thy will and not mine
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Love has softened my heart and softened me
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It's softened my eyes on the things they see
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And my cheek has got much
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Softer to the touch
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Since I learned to be receiver as well as sender.
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To win in love you must surrender.
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I ask at night when the world is still
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Be it done unto me according to thy will.
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To summon Gabriel and Michaelangelo
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Or to compete with Juliet or Romeo
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Your armor, so strong
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Is strategically wrong
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Victory goes this time to the tender.
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To win in love you must surrender.
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To win in love you must surrender, surrender, surrender, surrender...
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Surrender.
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Surrender
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Jonathan Richman |