| I was born and raised the only son of a lawyer
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| till I was approximately the age of four or perhaps five
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| I lost both my mother and my father
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| Killed in a fire way up on the fourteenth floor
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| Struck down by the time I was ten by an illness
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| which robbed me of the sight of the morning sun
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| And that ain’t all
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| A homeless child for the next five years
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| with my dog Clown by my side and my only friend
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| Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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| I fought my way through school
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| Sound and touch the thing on which I could depend
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| And you know what the, the, the kids
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| down my street weren’t too playful
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| And right then it seemed like the whole world picked on me And ah yeah
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| I worked my fingers to the bone
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| Stretchin' hide for a boot man in Jersey Town
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| But then, but then I lost the last thing I had
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| When fate reared its ugly head and took my dog Clown
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| I wandered way up north found a girl that loved like a woman
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| Sixteen years old and felt like a woman
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| But, but, but, but, but what I’m trying to say is God please don’t take her away from me I lost everything that I ever had
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| you kicked my name into the dirt
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| Tread my name into the dirt yeah
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| I lost everything that I ever had
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| you kicked my name into the dirt
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| What could I do
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| I never knew how much love could hurt me But it never ever come my way before
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| No, no, no, no, no I never knew how much love could hurt me Good God it ain’t never come my way before
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| Oh but, but you know what I’m trying to say
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| really what I’m trying to say is God please don’t take her away from me Ah turn it down
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| I lost everything that I ever had
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| you kicked my name into the dirt
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| You got a lotta lotta lost everything
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| that I ever had ever had |