| We were together since we were far
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| She was so pretty, Emma was a star in everyone’s eyes
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| And when she said she’d be a movie queen, nobody left
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| A face like an angel, she could be anything
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| Emmaline, Emma Emmaline,
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| I’gonna write your name high on that silver screen
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| Emmaline, Emma Emmaline,
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| I’m gonna make you the biggest star this world had ever seen
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| At seventeen, we were wedded
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| And work day and night to earn our daily bread
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| And every day Emma would go out searchin' for that place
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| That never, ever came away
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| You know, sometimes she come home so depressed,
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| I hear her cry in the bedroom, fellin' so distressed
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| An’I remember back when she was far
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| To the words that used to make Emmaline come alive
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| It was…
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| Emmaline, Emma, Emmaline
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| I’gonna write your name high on that silver screen
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| Emmaline, Emma Emmaline,
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| I’m gonna make you the biggest star this world had ever seen
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| It was cold an’dark in the summer night
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| When I opened up the bedroom door
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| To find her lain still and cold upon the bed
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| A love letter lain on the bedroom floor
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| It read: «;Darling, I love you, |