[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Now she didn't get off to a very good start.
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And she tangled with love and he broke her heart.
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In a crumbling home had shown the childhood dreams were never real.
 
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I came along, she was seventeen,
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With the sun in her eyes and you know what I mean.
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She grew up too soon in the shade of my love, she taught me how to feel.
 
[Bridge 1]
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Loving each other was never enough.
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She was watching me grow and she wrote it up
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In a book of life she gave to me the day the white ships sailed.
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Farewell my darling, au revoir.
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I will pray every day for you, oh.
 
[Chorus 1]
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And she would stay alone while I'm away.
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She wouldn't walk all alone in the city without me.
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She would stay alone. She wouldn't play in the dark
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With this love inside........my heart.
 
[Verse 2]
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I came home on a summer night
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And the wind in her hair and she looked just right
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There was never another kind of woman
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Could see right through my soul
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Suddenly after the southern rain
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She rode out of my life on the midnight train
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And I fell to the ground  and the world became the last place I should be
 
[Bridge 2]
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Wandering angel I will wait for you
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For the sound of your voice, the dream that you made
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The book of life you gave to me still keeps my flame alive
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Nobody knows which way I'm going
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But I only search for you.    Oh....
 
[Chorus 2]
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So won't you stay alone while I'm away
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If we both walk in the same direction
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Maybe my eyes will see you one day
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Stay alone and may your dreams come to be
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All this love inside....of me
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Stay alone......Oh.....Ohhhhhhhhh