Key: C# minor•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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proach in your daughter's most beautiful face
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Made me wonder just how she could know
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Of that something that happened
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So much more than a long time ago
Verse 2
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with her eyes
disguise
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Verse 3
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As for the promises broken
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and frayed
Verse 4
grey pewter vase held
the deep red rose,
One piece of coral shone white,
By the brass candlestick
near your red velvet coat,
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Is everything I can recall of one night
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Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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After all of this time, I don't know
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Cause that year I had no courage to show
Verse 6
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never pronounce?
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Or did I even figure at all?
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All of this happened before she was born
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Did I shadow her young pencil
Verse 7
marks on the wall
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Still I am sure I was only but one
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Of a number who darkened that door
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Of your home and your hearth
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Who'd been darkened so often before
Verse 8
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Oh, the red leaf looks to
the hard gray stone
To each other,
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they know what they mean
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Somewhere, their future is still yet to come
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In ways that are yet as of now unforeseen
Outro 1
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ChordsC#m A B G# G#m
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