| Woman, she was gentle, she took me for awhile;
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| When my soul was beaten, she held it like a child.
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| Once there as another, she looked so much like you;
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| She never could received these things that I’m telling you.
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| La la la la la la la la
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| She claimed she was the woman who knew the life I craved;
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| Some would call her a savior while some would call her a slave.
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| Her devotion, it betrayed me, always broke my thoughts,
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| She stabbed me with the silence and I bled and called it love.
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| La la la …
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| But I was born a sailor with a sailor’s lonely life;
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| She said the sea it frightened her, she couldn’t be the sailor’s wife.
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| She said our love was sacred, I agreed it was blessed;
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| While underneath we really knew neither one could be possessed.
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| La la la …
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| Now even you my love have come to expect too much;
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| You should see you cannot reach for what you cannot touch.
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| So I will wander through your wounds lookng for an honest scar,
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| To teach me how to sing this song, now I will sing it well
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| La la la …
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| Woman, she was gentle, she took me for awhile;
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| When my soul was beaten, she held it like a child.
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| Like a child, la la la la la la. |