| Don’t tell me you don’t know what love is When you’re old enough to know better
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| When you find strange hands in your sweater
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| When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote
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| I’m a man with a mission in two or three editions
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| And I’m giving you a longing look
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| Everyday, everyday, everyday
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| Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book
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| Chapter one, we didn’t really get along
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| Chapter two, I think I fell in love with you
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| You said you’d stand by me in the middle of chapter three
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| But you were up to your old tricks in chapters four, five and six
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| And I’m giving you a longing look
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| Everyday, everyday, everyday
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| Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book
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| The way you walk
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| The way you talk and try to kiss me and laugh
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| In four or five paragraphs
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| All your compliments and your cutting remarks
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| Are captured here in my quotation marks
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| And I’m giving you a longing look
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| Everyday, everyday, everyday
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| Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book
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| Everyday I write the book
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| Don’t tell me you don’t know the difference
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| Between a lover and a fighter
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| With my pen and my electric typewriter
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| Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal
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| I’d still own the film rights and be working on the sequel
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| And I’m giving you a longing look
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| Everyday, everyday, everyday
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| Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book
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| Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book
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| Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book
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| Everyday, everyday, everyday
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| Everyday I write the book
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| Everyday, everyday
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| Everyday I write the book
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| Everyday, everyday
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| Everyday I write the book
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| Everyday, everyday
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| Everyday I write the book
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| Everyday, everyday
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| Everyday I write the book
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| Everyday, everyday
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| Everyday I write the book
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| Everyday, everyday
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| Everyday I write the book
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| Everyday, everyday
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| Everyday I write the book
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| Everyday, everyday
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| Everyday I write the book
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| Everyday, everyday
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| Everyday I write the book
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| Everyday, everyday |