Key: D major
Verse 1
together watching TV
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Sometimes she fell asleep before he did
Then all this laughter
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coming from nowhere
Next thing he knew,
she would be shaking him gently
Wake up little one,
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wake up Saturday morning
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So he'd get up, dress himself,
put his shoes on
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breakfast
Breakfast always came later,
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Other people's houses,
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other people's houses
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They had to catch two buses
to reach their destination
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And the trip seemed to take forever,
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unless he fell asleep along the way.
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When they got off at their stop,
brighter neighbourhood.
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All the houses were a long
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view by big hedges.
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She knew exactly where to go
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a big heavy ring full of keys
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All keys to other people's houses
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Other people's houses
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Of the people's houses
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Some of the doors needed two keys
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The houses had so
many things in them
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And carpet that went on forever
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and give himself a small electric shock.
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In the first house
they always went straight
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to the re frigerator.
he couldn't imagine anyone
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ever eating.
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and horrible concoctions in plastic.
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with a jam sandwich and a glass of milk.
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other people's houses.
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other people's houses.
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And so they would go
all Saturday long,
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from one house to another. His mother mopping,
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vacuuming, scrubbing, cleaning, tidying up,
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own devices.
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she would play music on the stereo.
There was one record
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and sang along to.
It had two men and two
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and they all looked sort of blonde,
except one of the women had
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dark hair.
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like the controls of a spaceship.
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Other houses were full of books.
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the shelves and open it up.
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and cricket and movie stars.
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He liked to look at the pictures
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He was very careful with the books.
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in other people's houses.
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Other people's houses.
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they would rush right past
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sometimes even bigger.
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then sit on the steps watching them.
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He felt slower than the others.
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who lived in a house they went to
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Her name was Stephanie.
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all around the house,
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He'd never see his mother
until it was time to leave.
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But one Saturday, his mother told him
that Stephanie and her family
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had moved away.
He still thinks of her now,
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twenty years later,
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moving, laughing,
people's houses.
Other people's houses
Other
Other people's house
Other people's house
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