| Lily, I don’t know how to start this letter
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| I’m writing you from the beach where I’m living
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| I got a disco outside of my window
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| I love all these kids, but the good times are killing me
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| I got a picture of you on the dashboard
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| So I can feel like you’re watching right over me
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| I hope someday you’re gonna move to the city
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| Cause the lights in this town, they don’t brighten up anything
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| And they say such foolish things, like «Love, love, love, love is all you need»
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| But everything inside is saying 'Danger, baby, love’s gonna leave'
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| So I played your sympathy, have mercy on me
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| Cause I been hurt, I been stung, by the good name of love, 'til I threw my own
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| heart in the sea…
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| Among other foolish things
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| And I don’t mind the nights and the low light
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| We spin 'round like records in the apartment
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| You still remind me of Marianne Faithfull
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| Lookin' like a picture taken outta the '60s
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| And we say such foolish things, like 'Love love love, love is all we need'
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| But everything inside is saying, «Danger, baby, love’s gonna leave»
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| So I played your sympathy, be patient with me
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| Cause I been hurt, I been stung, by the good name of love, 'til I threw my own
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| heart in the sea…
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| Among other foolish things
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| And we believe such foolish things, like 'Love love love, love is all we need'
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| And living would be easy if we never ever had to bleed
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| And I’ve taken a dive on a smoky set of eyes
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| I been so deceived and I’ve been the one lyin'
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| And there was this one time when I painted a masterpiece
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| Among other foolish things |