| Did I tell you 'bout the time you failed to recognize my heart?
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| I couldn’t find a way to betray you in my arms
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| You held a beauty but I didn’t care
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| For you parked your markings on your arm there
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| Did I tell you that inspite of you I sealed my fate?
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| And that I held you in my gaze to finally pace my gain
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| And though it always was away from you
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| Oh I can’t deny you like I used to do
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| So cradle me now in your arms, London city
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| Listen it’s time to forgive and forget
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| It’s funny how you defied something in me
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| But wait a minute, I’ve not finished yet
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| Do you remember when you called me out of Castlereagh Place?
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| How you swore to me a future through the troubles I’d face?
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| That broken promise that we feel and tame
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| Oh but now I realize you were not to blame
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| So cradle me now in your arms, London city
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| Surely it’s time to forgive and forget
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| Yeah it’s funny how you defied something in me
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| But wait a minute, I’m not finished yet
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| Lost friends, River Thames, Caledonian Road, Westminster
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| St. Paul’s Cathedral and the round parts of the Regal
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| And that bumbling buffoon, the Prime Minister
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| And the East End where there are hard men
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| Where they fight for good reason every now and then
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| In their nods and their smiles, they say I’m so rarified
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| I’m shining like a beacon in the evening light would
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| It all left me strong-eyed like an alley cat
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| But then you fed me and I remember that
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| So I guess what I’m saying is you’re not that bad
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| So cradle me now in your arms, London city
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| Surely it’s time to forgive and forget
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| Yeah it’s funny how you defied something in me
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| But wait a minute, I’m not finished yet |