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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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girl that I did love
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It was Stephanie
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In kindergarten arithmetic
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classes she used to
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Sit next to me
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under the table
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Where the teacher couldn't see
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Sometimes I wonder where she
Interlude 1
can be
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Verse 2
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I can remember the first girl I kissed
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It was Christine when I was ten
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I'd been told we were moving away
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I thought I'd never see her again
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Verse 3
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Oh don't forget me
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I'll be back when they let me
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Before you learn how to lie
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Love is so much easier then
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Verse 4
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And at school would you believe
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three hundred boys
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But you're a fool if you should leave
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Just think of the joys of rugby football
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prep in the morning
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and Brylcreem and acne
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running to kill evil thoughts
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I ran ten thousand miles with my
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back to the wall
Interlude 2
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Verse 6
the first
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girl that I made love to
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It was in a park
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In summer just after dark
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was
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reeling: Oh what a feeling.
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twelve miles home
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far
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Verse 8
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seventeenth summer
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of old disapproval
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From elderly local inhabitant's eyes
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Oh time, time we hardly
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You didn't touch us with
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late adolescence
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My goal seemed clearly in sight
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Playing electric guitar with a beat group
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Verse 11
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Camping it up for the dyed
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blonde receptionists
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On On On an ego trip for
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a teenage superstar
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Interlude 4
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Verse 12
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And so it fell that I came up to London
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To look for fortune and fame
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Starry eyed in my seaside successes
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First girl I met thereI thought
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I'd get there
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But the first girl was nearly the last girl
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She left my eyes in the drain
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She sat on my floor in the dead of the night
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Rolling a joint and looking
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Her clothes were so black and her
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face was so white
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And I sat all huddled upon my bed
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Watching her in my innocence
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but too much sense
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That took me to the bridge
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of impotence
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Oh Artaud'santhology lay
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spread on the floor
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And the thoughts that she gave me,
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And stranded half hypnotised,
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I watched her in awe
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And I wanted more than anything
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to be like her with every sense
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but too much sense
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That took me to the bridge
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of impotence
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She came over to me and kissed me in play
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Taking my hand between
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And she looked in my eyes but
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I turned them away
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but could not move
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Shattered in my confidence
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but too much sense
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That took me to the bridge of
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Verse 19
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Now the stare of the
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As she got up in the silence
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or to call out her name
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But how could I begin to explain?
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And my prosecuting
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room still holds
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A strand of her hair in evidence
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but too much sense
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That took me to the bridge
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Verse 21
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Oh I still think about her when the
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night fills with rain
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And speaks in its voices uneasy and vain
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And I think were I maybe
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to find her again
Oh I'd probably see her more
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plain
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was just like me
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It was af ter all only common-sense
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but too much sense
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That took me to the bridge
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of impotence
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but too much sense
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That took me to the bridge of impotence
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Interlude 5
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Verse 23
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At first I didn't go out much at all
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I just stayed at home in my chains
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s of my confidence
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And searching for the remains
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And when I couldn't stand any more of it
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Going down to a club
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s and the crowds
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I let the music cover me up
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the harlequins and painted phonies
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Of highs and lows and blues
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And all that I could do was
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to pick my way to you
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Though I didn't tell you
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You were just a thing to prove
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I was hungry when found you,
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but I'm al right now
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the refugees and su perher oes
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On ice, so nice to see you,
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what's your name?
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And all that I could do was
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to say the same to you
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Take you for the moment,
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But I was hungry when I found you
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and I'm al right now
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Though the street lamp cut
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It shed no light on our mind
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It would have been so easy to love you
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Only, lonely, you came to me
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the night hung coldly
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might have stayed with you
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But all that I could do was
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to turn around to you
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Thanks for what you gave me now
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it's time to say "Adieu"
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I was hungry when I found you
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but I'm al right now.
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Ba ba ba
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alright
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now
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Verse 31
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And so it came that I stood disillusioned
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By everything I'd been told
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I just didn't believe love existed
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They were all just digging for gold
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ists and businessmen
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Loved each other they said
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just a manoeuvre
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The quickest way into bed
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And so I followed the others' example
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And jumped into the melee
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Court and Swiss Cottage
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deb girls and arties
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Bouncing around in the social confusion
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Interlude 7
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Verse 35
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I thought you'd be like all of the rest
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And we'd be strangers once again
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By the time we were dressed
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And talked of some people that we'd me
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I found myself asking was it set,
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did you have to go yet
Verse 37
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And stayed for the whole weekend
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Although the bed was so narrow
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We had to sleep end to end
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Verse 38
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In their dadaisticchain
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and again and again
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And all you gave you gave it free
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Asking for nothing back from me
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as a part of me
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The fruits of the bed was enough
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It grew to be less like fucking
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And more like making love
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Verse 40
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Of all the girls I ever knew
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some loved and some denied me
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And all the words I ever said
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have been no use to hide me
Verse 41
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And all the songs I ever sung
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each one of them untied me
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And all the girls I ever loved
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have left themselves inside me
Outro 1
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