| I was sixteen when the story began
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| And you used to say come as soon as you can
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| And I’d leave right away with the stars up above
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| The karma stopped and I was in love
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| And I’d come straight back to you
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| At the sound of your name
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| Straight back to you
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| To see you again
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| And you’d leave me a light
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| And I’d find my way
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| Straight back to you to stay…
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| When I was eighteen
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| There’s the story unfolds
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| And I moved away though the house was unsold
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| And the day that I left, you gave me a ring
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| We weren’t engaged but it meant something
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| For I’d have gone straight back to you
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| If I felt that I could
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| Straight back to you
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| To your neighborhood
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| And you’d leave me a light
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| And I’d find my way
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| Straight back to you to stay…
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| When I was twenty things gradually turned bad
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| And I should have left then and I wish that I had
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| But you say to yourself that things will improve
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| And they never do and it’s then that you lose
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| For I’d have gone straight back to you
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| If I thought things would change
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| Straight back to you
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| The past you exchanged
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| And you’d leave me a light
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| And I’d find my way
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| Straight back to you to stay… hey
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| When I turned twenty-one things came to an end
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| And you live with someone who was once just a friend
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| And before I left I did one last thing
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| I came to your house and brought out the ring
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| And gave it straight back to you
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| Though I felt no remorse
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| Straight back to you
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| And then love ran its course
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| And you left me alive
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| And I found my way
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| Straight out of there and away
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| Straight out of there and away
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| Straight out of there and away |