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7.3 KiB
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Reprinted here are the lyrics from the Stranglers 'Feline' album,
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(C) 1982 CBS Records. Songs included are:
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Midnight Summer Dream
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It's a Small World
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Ships That Pass in the Night
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The European Female
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Let's Tango in Paris
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Paradise
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All Roads Lead to Rome
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Blue Sister
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Never Say Goodbye
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These are, of course, reprinted without permission.
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Midnight Summer Dream
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Woke up on a good day
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And the world was wonderful
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A midnight summer dream had me in its spell.
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I dreamt about an old man
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Sat and watched the rain all night
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He couldn't sleep a wink as all the drops fell.
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He told me of the beauty
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Hidden in our foreheads
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He told me of the ugliness
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We show instead.
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And when we put a foot wrong do we learn
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From all the pain
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A midnight summer dream as he watched the rain.
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Then at midnight he poured another drink
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And bent my ear
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After midnight we sat up half the night
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Or maybe more
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And he began to tell me what it was all for
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I woke up in an armchair
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He had gone i don't know where
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Left me there to sit and look at the rain
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Don't remember much at all
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But his words were echoing
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A midnight summer dream and then wake again.
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Maybe I'll never find him
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Maybe he's gone forever
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Maybe I'll have to sit here
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Watching weather.
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One thing's pretty certain helped me
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Make it in the night
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Showed me somewhere else besides wrong and right
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And at midnight if you can't sleep
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Then I can bend your ear
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After midnight we'll sit up half the night
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Or maybe more
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And I'll begin to tell you what it is all for.
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Wake up on a good day and the world
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Feels wonderful
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Midnight summer dream has me in its spell.
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It's a Small World
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Many roads to travel down and there are
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Many surprises to find
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But as luck will have it you can stumble
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In the valley of the blind
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Friends will always tell you fate will rear
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Its ugly head to frighten you
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But the hands of time hold something and
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He's offering it all to you.
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Watch out for a surprise
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It's nature's biggest prize
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And if it comforts you discover
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It's a small world too.
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Read your books and study hard to find the kick
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That makes you carry on
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And if luck's a kind friend she will show you
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How and why it all began.
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Just look in the backyard
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You won't have to look hard
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The crossword's final clue discover
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It's a small world too.
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When your friends are gathered round
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And you draw straws to find out who goes first
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Climb the wall out of the pleasure garden
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See a flower die of thirst.
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A circle's always round
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The truth lies underground
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You may just join the few discover
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It's a small world too.
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Ships That Pass in the Night
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We're waiting for better weather on a ship
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To pass in the night
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Solve all of our problems for us on a ship
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To pass in the night
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We don't care if it's one way passage on a ship
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To pass in the night
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Keep all of the lanterns burning for the ship
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To pass in the night.
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Suddenly you see a mast
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Approaching you pretty fast
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Hope it's not like the last
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But it just sails right past.
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Keep scanning romantic oceans for the ship
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To pass in the night
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Some kind of religious notion on a ship
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To pass in the night
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Or vote for a politician as a ship
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To pass in the night
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Or pay for a good physician like a ship
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To pass in the night
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Suddenly you see a mast
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Approaching you pretty fast
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Hope it's not like the last
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But it just sails right past....
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The European Female
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I knew she was a feline
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She moved with ease and grace
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Her green eyes they held mystery.
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No emotion on her face.
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She speaks her lips are kissing
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The air around her face
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I don't always under-stand her
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But I love her air and grace.
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The European female she is here
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The European female's here
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We'll be together for a thousand years
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And do you really fear
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That you might fall.
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I saw her in the Strasse
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And in the Rue as well
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Pursued her in the Hight Street
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She had me in her spell.
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Let's Tango in Paris
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Sentimental through the night
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Sharing secret candlelight
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We're away
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Every day
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Laughing, joking just sustains
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Situation quite insane
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Flowing wine
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Quite sublime
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Not so far for me to say
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I could take you there today
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Let's tango in Paris.
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You might find yourself with me
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Share your glass of vanity
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We're away
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Every day
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Not for me to say
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I could take you there today
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Let's tango in Paris.
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Paradise
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I went in search of paradise
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They said it would be good for my head
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So I went in search of paradise
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But she took me by my head instead.
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Paris - London
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Glamour and despair
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Ruins - we were ruined over there
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Ruins - we ruined over there-er-er.
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And when you think you're in paradise
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But then you find your arms are tied
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Captive in the name of paradise
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The chains are all her lies.
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Paris - London etc.
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The picture on the screen is moving still
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It's moving all the time
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If only you could freeze frame a moment there
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You could have paradise all the time.
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Paris - London etc.
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I don't think anyone ever found paradise
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'Cos paradise is based on lies....
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(Repeat till fade.)
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All Roads Lead to Rome
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The streets of Tarmac are strait as a die
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With steel fingers clawing at the sky
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Inside the wall of the citadel
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Yellow chariots race
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Peasants and their peasants' smells
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Hungry enough to touch your face.
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The beasts from the end of the century
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Adorn themselves with jewellery
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Inside the wall of the citadel
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Yellow chariots race
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peasants and their peasants' smells
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Hungry enough to touch your face.
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Their eyes they change colour from grey to green
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And when they're blue they weigh the scene
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The endless games played in the timeless zone
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Remind me all roads lead to Rome
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Inside the wall of the citadel
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Yellow chariots race
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Peasants and their peasants' smells
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Hungry to touch your frightened face
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All roads lead to Rome
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All roads lead to Rome
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All roads lead to Rome
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All roads lead to Rome.
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Blue Sister
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Blue sister please don't cry
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Blue sister dry your eyes
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Your lover's been taken away by some friends
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That he met in the night.
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That scene's not a new one to you
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You've seen it a million times too
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The players, their lines are old too
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Blue sister know that I care about you.
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Blues sister are no cure
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For you sister that's for sure
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Your eyes have been shouldering pain
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And the tears show emotion so pure.
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That scene's not a new one to you .... etc.
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Blue sister you'll survive
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Blue sister's inner drive is
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Your man don't drive him away
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If you want him here stay alive.
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That scene's not a new one to you .... etc.
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Never Say Goodbye
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Black friend of the night
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Why did you leave in such a hurry?
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White friend of the day
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You left us juggling our worries
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Never say goodbye
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For we'll all be with you someday
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Fond adieus but never say goodbye
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Like lovers in the past
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They swim and surface in our memories
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Questions never asked
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I'll save them all for the next century
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Never say goodbye
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For we'll all be with you someday
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Fond adieus but never say goodbye.
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Tell us what's over the horizon
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Is it worth the chance
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To hang around for more surprising?
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Never say goodbye
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For we'll all be with you someday
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Fond adieus but never say goodbye.
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+++ lyrics typed by Someone Else, Ai fictionwriters 2/86
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