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Anywhere’s a better way to be…
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The morning came so swiftly as I held her in my arms,
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She slept like a baby, snug and safe from harm.
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I did not want to scare her or dare to break the mood,
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So before she woke I went out to buy us both some food.
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I came back with my paper bag to find she had gone…
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She’d left a six word letter saying,
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“It’s time that I moved on.”
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The waitress took her bar rag, and she wiped it across her eyes,
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As she spoke he voice came out as something like a sigh…
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She said "I wish that I was beautiful, or that you were halfway blind.
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And I wish I weren’t so goddamned fat, I wish that you were mine,
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And I wish that you’d come with me, when I leave for home.
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For we both know all about emptiness and livin’ all alone."
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And the little man,
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Looked at the empty glass in his hand,
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And he smiled a crooked grin,
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He said, "I guess I’m out of gin,
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And know we both have been so lonely.