Key: C# minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
David Foster lives
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in Gloucester with his family
Works 'til pay-time, through through the day-time,
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then then comes home for tea
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Steak and kidney,
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then with Sydney to his club and feels free
They close the bar,
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he finds his car and then goes home to sleep
And his wife has been with Rosie,
in the parlour where it's cosy
Watching telly, doing dishes,
And, Not tonight dear, I'm too tired
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An d life drifts slowly
Verse 2
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for his first school day
Bites his teacher,
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sees a preacher and is taught to pray
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Sees some birds and learns some words it's very,
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was in his young day
And his father has discussions,
holding forth about the Russians
Will the Red Chinese attack us
but he grunts and just turns over
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And life drifts slowly by in the provinces
Verse 3
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Wedding rings come with strings but
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love depends on the little things
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Oh could that still be really you
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Is there anything time can't
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do
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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David Foster's been promoted,
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he's a decent sort
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it's good for sport
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They've even got a private parking
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place down in Huntingdon Court
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the neighbours thought
Yes, and then he'll teach the beatniks
And the hang-around-the-streetnicks
And the the the good-for-nothing loafers
loafers
loafers
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Re cently
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Verse 5
I was born and brought
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up on the east side of town
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And my earliest days
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I would play af ter school with
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the kids all around
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In the sun and the dust
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hood the war had its day
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ways be leaving
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So my brother and I we
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would sit by her side
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Telling our tales through
Verse 7
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Oh, I grew with the days and
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the boys came to call
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In the back shed I learned about kissing
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But I don't think my
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mother has no ticed at all
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daddy is missing
Verse 8
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over and I went off to work
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And my mother grew quieter and greyer
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So one day I left her and went off to live
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a saxophone player
Verse 9
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In our broken down attic
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we laughed and made love
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And all that we had we were sharing
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Oh, we slept through the day
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and played into the night
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God, we did as we
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pleased without caring
Verse 10
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Oh but a year's passed away
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and he's left me one day
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To play in a far away country
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And the sun told my eyes,
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You've got no place to hide
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As I waited to be having his baby
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Verse 11
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Oh I lived in the park and
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the men passed and stared
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Each wondering which one had lost her
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And one came to ask could
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he buy me a meal
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And he said he was called David Foster
Verse 12
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We were married that month
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Somehow I'd pay back
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Cooking his sup per and
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cleaning his boots
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Yes, and kid ding myself
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I could love him
Verse 13
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Oh, but now my baby is grown
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and he's gone out to school
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And he looks very much like his daddy
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And David has buried
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himself in his work
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And the time on my hands,
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it hangs heavy
Verse 14
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Oh, the neighbours they smile
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as we pass in the streets
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marks on the weather
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But the butcher and baker
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deliver things now
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out altogether
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Oh, I
Verse 15
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stare in my eyes
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Trying to make out who I see there
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But I'm looking at a woman
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that I can't recognize
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And I don't think she
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knows me either
Verse 16
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There are lines on her face
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and her hair is a mess
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And the light in her eyes it grows colder
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In the morning there's nothing will change,
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ah but yes
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I will be just a little bit older
Outro 1
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