| The 1st time I saw you
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| I did try hard to burn my eyes
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| Life was but a sad dream
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| I was but a sad breath
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| You were something like sand
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| When sunlight hits the sea
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| The 2nd time I saw you
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| I was about to take the road
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| I asked «Would you wait for me?»
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| You said «Life ain’t a highway»
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| Better if we’d been born
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| As siamese songbirds
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| The 3rd time I saw you
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| We went to the zoo
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| All steady hot beers, sorrowful monkeys
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| Big eyes laughing
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| Wish I had not held hands
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| The 4th time I saw you
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| It was like I was gonna die
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| I was waiting outside
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| And you just had a new guy
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| And asked me why, I, I
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| Son, son, won’t you come along?
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| We have no time for another song, song, song
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| Won’t you sing along?
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| We have no sea, child
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| The 5th time I saw you
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| He was traveling abroad
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| And your eyes, they were not here
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| You just made new friends
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| While I tried to stop with cigarrettes
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| The 6th time I saw you
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| I was properly insane
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| For the whisky I’d drunk
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| The drugs I’d taken
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| Gimme one way you will realise
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| The 7th time I saw you
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| You were married again
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| And if I had just once kissed you
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| Things wouldn’t be the same
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| Surely the sky’d be different
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| The 8th time I saw you
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| I was strumming the guitar
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| And your ears were not for me
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| My ears were a-bleeding
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| The waiter was blind
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| Please someone blind my eyes
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| The last time I saw you
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| It was about 5 a. |
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| You approached me in a strange car
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| Finally kissed me
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| Then did wave goodbye
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| Before you disappeared
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| Sometimes I ache, babe
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| I ain’t hard enough to stand
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| Days they just drown me
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| Coming back from work
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| Having sour breakfast
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| Seasick from your chest |