Key: Bb minor•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I was just thirty-four years years old
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I don't know why I thought I should have
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away
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cursed the men who fit the coil
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And men not fit for marriage
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took their refuge in the oil
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No one respects the flame quite like
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the fool who's badly burned
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From all this you'd imagine that there
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must be something learned
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Can't pretend that growing
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older never hurts
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slit skirt
slit skirt
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Why can't we drink it up
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Just need a brief new romance
Verse 8
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Let me tell you some more about myself,
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The big events of the day are passed and the
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Verse 10
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Recriminations fester and the
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past can never change
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A woman's expectations run
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from both ends of the range
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Once she woke with untamed lovers'
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face between her legs
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Now he's cooled and stifled and it's
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she who has to beg
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Can't pretend that growing
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older never hurts
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Am
We have to be so drunk to try a new dance
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slit skirt
slit skirt
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Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt
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slit skirt
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She wouldn't dare in those slit skirts,
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Wouldn't be seen dead
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C
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in no slit skirt
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Why can't we drink it
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Just need a brief new
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romance
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