| Dust falls on the empty halls of my old school
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| Where the memories fade like the casualty a forgotten fool
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| Now wide-eyed has become the blind unspoken rule
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| Deeper only deep is now the word
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| the lesson’s not the answer you once heard
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| Don’t turn your back on me don’t ever let me down
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| she said I picked you up each time
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| Before you hit the ground
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| Your selfish face is now erased
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| when someone mentions you
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| And the darkness that you left
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| Has all but stepped aside
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| With disappearing clouds the sun arrives
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| Within a mile of home
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| Within a mile of home
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| Worry o' my worry has it been that long
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| The whistle keeps on blowin' but the tune’s long gone
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| His empty frame cannot explain there’s nothing left inside
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| So sing to me a song from yesterday
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| When laughter filled the tears that we now make
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| Don’t turn your back on me don’t ever let me down
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| she said I picked you up each time
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| Before you hit the ground
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| Your selfish face is now erased
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| when someone mentions you
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| If only you had seen
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| What I now see
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| And turned the corner where you would have been
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| Within a mile of home
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| Within a mile of home
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| So sing to me, sing me a song, a song from yesterday
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| And when the laughter drank these tears before
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| the promises that now slip away
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| Don’t turn your back on me Don’t turn your back on me Don’t ever let me down
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| We are within a mile
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| We are within a mile
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| within a mile of home… |