| (A personal song. It has been kept simple to retain the
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| essentially intimate mood of the piece.)
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| Why am I using words, no more to say
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| without you
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| Close the door, put out the lights and go.
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| Late in the night, in the night your
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| shadow falls between us.
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| Nevermore, never know.
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| There, memories are sorrow,
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| When there’s no tomorrow.
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| Sleep while the sweet sorrow wakes
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| my daydream;
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| Sleep while you think of me with
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| kindness, please remember former
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| days.
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| Sweet the song that once we sang, the
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| silent parting ways.
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| And you know, and you know,
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| And you know, long ago when first we
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| made our promise —
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| Empty words, I wonder did you know —
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| The laugh that love could not forgive,
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| Is gone and tells no more to live,
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| And we who look in beauty’s love;
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| Must now, through all, look back on
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| before —
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| The tears that I first cried, no more;
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| Your love has come and gone, no more.
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| And we who look in beauty’s love
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| Must now through all think back
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| on before.
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| Sleep while the sweet sorrow wakes my
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| daydream
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| Sleep while you think of me with
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| kindness, please remember former
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| days.
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| And you know, and you know.
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| And you know, when we two parted in
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| tears
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| and silence
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| past the days, the parting ways.
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| Fare thee well, fare thee well, you
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| that was once dear to me.
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| Think of me with kindness
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| Think of me. |