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I gazed upon you from the bleachers
A creature so foreign to me
With the stars and the stripes wrapped around you
Well how could I know there was England below?
I gazed upon you and I wondered
Cheerleader with hair of red flame
But that was first glance - I saw only the dance
And the distance from New York to Yorkshire... |
Tell me Im mad
How should I know?
Tell me Im mad
I have been here for so long
Help me paint a picture
They say its a lie
Tell me Im mad
Youre a fine one to decide
Burn me in the fires of wild heaven
Like it never, never, never would stop
Tell me Im mad
Tell me I imagined that
Was it something I didnt say
Or was it some... |
I saw you there last night
In the latest place
You were taking in the scenery
Hungry for a new face
Seems what I said to you
Didnt change your mind
You could open your eyes, realise
You dont need anyone
Whos always on the phone
You dont need anyone
Who wont leave you alone
You dont need anyone
Whod want you to cut him ... |
We need to talk... about the way youve been behaving
We need to talk... about the Christmas lights in your clothes
We need to talk... about the stranger in the kitchen
We need to talk... about the scissors and the silver foil
I thank God...
Youre so fabulously...
Odd
Whatever is wrong with you
Whatever is wrong with yo... |
She took my hand and said Lets go together
You and me against the world
And so we stuck it out through still and stormy weather
And so we tumbled down the years
I took her hand and said Lets go together
Just you and me against the world
Lets go together
Stay together
Well tumble down the years
And well come to find the... |
Woke up in a city that doesnt sleep
Full of rain
You woke me up
Woke up in a city down by the sea
Like a dream
You woke me up
I woke up in a city full of snow
And history and beauty and Christmas-lights and cold
With angels that come when all is lost
In golden light at dead of night
They take you home
And I woke up
I w... |
Something is coming out of the rain
Magic, its happening again
Like the last time
I dont know how it happens
But I know what to do
Comin up from the ground
I think its you
I will walk on the water
You sent me the red sun and the purple sky
Cirrus clouds and grins
Atoms of roses
The power to do anything
In the chaos of ... |
Strung out below a necklace of carnival lights
Cold moan, held on the crest of the night
Im too tired to fight
So now were passing strangers, at single tables
Still trying to get over
Still trying to write love songs for passing strangers
All those passing strangers
And the twinkling lies, all those twinkling lies
Spar... |
Air full of feathers
Fluttering distant laughter
Air full of signs & strange magic
Planets aligned in warning
Trap door sprung beneath me
And Im falling
But Im rising..
Downwards into blue sky
Im rising
Downwards into blue sky
Re-entering the earth
Comets tail behind me
Signaling a birth
The northern lights, all burnin... |
The little corn flies are messing with my nerve endings
Just like you
My little corn fly
She comes with the sunlight and the perfect summer days
And she never stays
Just like you
My corn fly
The little corn flies are messing with my nerve endings
Just like you
My little corn fly
Into my clothes and under my picture fra... |
Everything crashed
His wife left him
He lost all his money
And most of his friends
He lay awake all night
Lonely and desperate
Contemplating starting again
These chains are all your own
These chains are comfortable
Four in the morning
Sat in the kitchen
Keys on the table
Went out for a drive
He didnt know
Where he was ... |
Bound up in this energy ball again
Laughing and bouncin off the magic
Rollin under like a surfboard in a wave
Washin me up... I want to do it again
Entwined in her arms
Spinning around and submarine beneath the deep of her
Climbing the forks of the lightning
Building a rod for my back its all right, its all right
Dream... |
Curl up tight into a ball
Curl my body against the soil
Staring up here
At the cathedral wall
I will sleep tonight
Be a baby
Forget it all
Be a baby
Watch the quiet stones
Massive friend
Cathedral wall
I will sleep tonight
A mother to the living
A mother to the dead
Silent as the moonlight
I come to lay my head
And I w... |
We flew here to see you
My feelings and I
I looked down on the city
From up in the sky
The sun was reflecting
From the roofs and the water
Spring had come early
In the parks and the old town
I came with a mission
To patch up a dream
We walked and I talked and my words were absorbed
Into the answering machine
I came two... |
When youre driving through the city
I hope all your lights are green
And the boy you choose to live with
Well, I hope hes never mean
When you stop a while to think
I hope your thoughts dont drag you down
When youve had too much to drink
I hope the room dont spin around
Youre a girl half the world could fall in love wit... |
Best of three, the angel said
As daylight burst behind his head
Jacob all night wrestling with his angel
Then out into the Boul St. Mich
He cruises in a new Corniche
Now doesnt god stand up for b-a-s-t-a-r-d-s
Baby you cant lose it
Youd be mad to choose it
Don¹t you know he was born to do you down
You cant cheat your f... |
Vodka intimate, an affair with isolation in a Blackheath cell
Extinguishing the fires in a private hell
Provoking the heartache to renew the licence
Of a bleeding heart poet in a fragile capsule
Propping up the crust of the glitter conscience
Wrapped in the christening shawl of a hangover
Baptised in the tears from the... |
Well I gave up cocaine and I gave up smack
I gave up drinking alcohol and smoking crack
I gave up living on the never never
But I cant give up believing that Im going to live forever
Well I gave up computer games, I gave up meat
I gave up watching tv in my favourite seat
I gave up wearing fur and I gave up wearing leat... |
Ive done everything that can be done to heal this wound
Left it on its own for years
Ive done everything that can be done to heal this wound
Left it on its own for years
Couldnt touch it, didnt pick it, didnt get it wet
It didnt stop the bleeding
I bandaged it, I wrapped it, stitched it, tourniqueted it
I held it stiff... |
Here we are
At the beginning of the last century for man
Usin up parts of the world we havent even seen or been to
The wretched of the earth exploited by the rich few
Whats new?
If you are not outraged
You havent been paying attention
If you are not outraged
You havent been listening
God bless America, I mean it
God bl... |
The hole in the ozone layer is alright by me
Makes England warmer in the summer
Them tropical guys had it too good too long
High time they learned to sing another song
And anyway, whats wrong with the odd melanoma
If it gets us all out of the coma |
Wide boys, wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian
Wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian
Wide boys, we were wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian
These hearts of Lothian
Its six oclock in the tower blocks
Stalagmites of culture shock
And the trippers of the light fantastic, bow down, hoe-down
Spr... |
And it was morning
And I found myself mourning
For a childhood that I thought had disappeared
I looked out the window
And I saw a magpie in the rainbow, the rain had gone
Im not alone, I turned to the mirror
I saw you, the child, that once loved
The child before they broke his heart
Our heart, the heart that I believed... |
Did you ever fall in love?
Did you ever fall in love?
Did you ever fall in love?
Did you ever dream of falling?
If my heart were a ball, it would roll uphill
If my heart were a ball, it would roll uphill
Were alone in the world, we must do what we feel we should
Were told what is right, need hurts within us
We can see ... |
Theres no such thing
As an answered prayer
Theres no such thing
As the ozone layer
Theres no such thing
As an action hero
Theres no such thing
As an easy ride
Theres no such thing
As a place to hide
Theres no such thing
As a perfect day
Theres no such thing
As the pearly gates
Theres no such thing
As an ordered world
T... |
Do you remember chalk hearts melting on a playground wall
Do you remember dawn escapes from moon washed college halls
Do you remember the cherry blossom in the market square
Do you remember I thought it was confetti in our hair
By the way didnt I break your heart?
Please excuse me, I never meant to break your heart
So ... |
OK, if Im honest, we struggled for a Z.
We nearly wrote one specially.
Yeah, we nearly wrote a song! Zaylesbury ... So, were going to do a little kind of minor ... homage is not the right word ... cabbage might be nearer. All our fingers and toes are crossed. This is Zeparated Out.
Hey hey mama, said the way you move
I... |
Hold your breath till you feel it begin
Here it comes
Get used to it
But you sleep like a ghost with me
Its as simple as that
So tell me Im mad
Roll me up and breathe me in
Come to my madness
My opium den
Come to my madness
Make sense of it again |
I am the assassin, with tongue forged from eloquence
I am the assassin, providing your nemesis
On the sacrificial altar to success, my friend
Unleash a stranger from a kiss, my friend
No incantations of remorse, my friend
Unsheathe the blade within the voice, my friend
Who decorates the scarf with the fugi knot
Who cam... |
Make a drug of my senses
Ill get you out of your head
Im sick for you
Love wastes us together
Love holds us together
Love folds us together
Flowers |
Maybe youre just too upset inside
To give it to me straight
Maybe youve become too angry and too close to crying
To say anything I can understand
Or maybe youre just coming in over my head
Maybe youre just too upset inside
Too upset inside
How can it hurt if I dont understand
How can it hurt if I dont understand
Youre ... |
Wide boys, wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian
Wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian
Wide boys, we were wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian
These hearts of Lothian
Its six oclock in the tower blocks
The stalagmites of culture shock,
And the trippers of the light fantastic, bowdown, hoedown... |
But he who dies with the most toys....
Is still dead
He who dies with the most toys....
Is still dead
You have to be cool
You have to be hip
You have to be chic
You have to be rich
You have to be young
Whatever that is
You have to listen to whats in & whats happenin
But
He who dies with the most toys....
Is still dead
... |
When I hit the streets back in 81
Found a heart in the gutter and a poets crown
I felt barbed wire kisses and icicle tears
Where have I been for all these years?
I saw political intrigue, political lies
Gonna wipe those smiles of self-satisfaction from their eyes
I will wear your white feather
I will carry your white f... |
Look at it as though youve never it seen before
Try and forget it
So you can see it
Taste it like youve never tasted it before
Try and forget it
So you can remember it
See it like a baby
See it like a baby
See it like a baby
See it like a baby
Love her like youve never fallen in love before
Fall out of love with her
So... |
Even if the good old days were good
Even if the old days were golden days
The past is a terrible place to live
Misguided missiles, skin creams and cars
Loaded with dreams, pretty faces Im loaded with stories
Im loaded with dreams
Loaded with ambition
Im loaded with live ammunitions
Saving up for linda, saving up for pa... |
Feeling you shake
Feel your heart break
Thinking if only, if only, if only, if only
And the salt water runs
Through your veins and your bones
Telling you no not this way, not this way, not this way
And you would give anything
Give up everything
Offer your life blood away
For yesterday
No one leaves you
When you live in... |
I dont know what youre doing here
When theres murder on the street
I appreciate your concern
But dont waste your time on me
Im ashes on the water now
Somewhere far away
You think you came here just in time
But youre twenty years too late
You wont have long to wait
Easy, you said I was easy. This world sharpens teeth. E... |
Heading for the great escape
Heading for the rave
Heading for the permanent holiday
Heading for the winter trip
Heading for the slide
Heading for the dignified walk away
Heading for the open road
Goodbye to all that
Heading for the automatic overload
Standing in the open boat
Standing in the swing
Waiting for the ringi... |
When the taxis gather in mock Solemnity
Funeral hearses court the death of virginity
Was it paradise lost or paradise found?
Did we gain respect or were we holding ground?
You had found true love, or so you believed
And the wide boys tattooed your hearts upon their sleeves
So when you think its time to go
When you thin... |
Everybody knows we live in a world
Where they give bad names to beautiful things
Everybody knows we live in a world
Where we dont give beautiful things a second glance
Heaven only knows we live in a world
Where what we call beautiful is just something on sale
People laughing behind their hands
As the fragile and the se... |
Feeling you shake
Feel your heart break
Thinking if only, if only, if only, if only
And the salt water runs
Through your veins and your bones
Telling you no not this way, not this way, not this way
And you would give anything
Give up everything
Offer your life blood away
For yesterday
No one leaves you
When you live in... |
Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono
Wearing bracelets of smoke, naked of understanding
Nicotine smears, long, long dried tears, invisible tears
Safe in my own words, learning from my own words
Cruel joke, cruel joke
Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono
A morning mare rides, in the starless shutters o... |
Cover my eyes
The light falls on her face
Dangerous lines
Dangerous colours and shapes
Ferocious designs
Connected and ready to play
Buttoned up tight
Crimson and Halloween-white
Shes like the girl in the movie when the Spitfire falls
Like the girl in the picture that he couldnt afford
Shes like the girl with the smile... |
Is it wrong to talk to myself even when theres nobody else
Im just checking out that Im not gone under the water
Thrown on the beach like a seal ready for slaughter
Cant you understand that the way things were planned
It never worked out so I just went crazy
I took to the drink, like something says its maybe
I aint got... |
Do you remember chalk hearts melting on a playground wall?
Do you remember dawn escapes from moon washed college halls?
Do you remember the cherry blossom in the market square?
Do you remember I thought it was confetti in our hair?
By the way, didnt I break your heart?
Please excuse me I never meant to break your heart... |
On the rebound, fumbling all the lines
The light at the end of the bottle - alcoholic alphabet
Through the looking glass the proof in my own reflection
Five senses down and reeling on the Cinderella search
On the rebound, fumbling all the lines
Decay on the vertical hold with a horizontal aim
Conversation needs transla... |
So were going to play an XTC song for X, because we didnt have one. This is Senses Working Overtime.
Hey, hey, the clouds are whey
Theres straw for the donkeys
And the innocents can all sleep safely
All sleep safely
My, my, sun is pie
Theres fodder for the cannons
And the guilty ones can all sleep safely
All sleep saf... |
Id be really pleased to meet you if I could remember your name
But I got problems of the memory ever since I got a winner in the fame game
Im a citizen of Legoland travellin incommunicado
And I dont give a damn for the Fleet Street aficionados
But I dont want to be the back-page interview
I dont want launderette anonym... |
I found smog at the end of my rainbow
I found my thoughts shift slowly into phase
Declared the constitution of the walkway
I realise its time to plan the day
Im a Market Square hero gathering the storms to troop
Cause Im a Market Square hero speeding the beat of the street pulse
Are you following me, are you following ... |
I think I have become one of the hollow men
As I shine on the outside more these days
I can feel the outside feeding on my inside
Leaves a growing darkness in its place
I think I have become one of the hollow men
I think I have become one of the lonely
Now that everybody talks to me
I feel I have become one of the empt... |
A love song with no validity
Pretend you never meant that much to me
Numb, a Valium child, bored by meaningless collisions
A lonely stretch of headlight, diamonds trapped in black ice
A mirror cracked among the white lines
I just wanted you to be the first one
I just wanted you to be the first one
Ashes are burning, bu... |
I was walking in the park dreaming of a spark
When I heard the sprinklers whisper
Shimmer in the haze of summer lawns
Then I heard the children singing
They were running through the rainbows
They were singing a song for you
Well it seemed to be a song for you
The one I wanted to write for you, for you
Lavenders blue, d... |
Absence makes the heart go mad
All the solid things become mirages
The certain things, sand running in the hour glass
Running away I scream along the ledge
As the windows back and close
I run around try to prove the sunrise
I believe in belief but its proof I need
Can you show me its me?
Can you show me its me?
Traveli... |
Staring down from this high window
At the faces in the line
Cold from hours of waiting
How many people can you love?
When youre black and blue with bruises
From collisions on the road
The friction grind of travelling
This is the never ending show
All over the world in eighty days
Head in a blur of information
What kind... |
I wonder if my rope’s still hanging from the tree
By the standing pool where you drank me
And filled me full of thirsty love
And the memory of water?
‘Wonder if a king still fishes there
His back toward the burned out air
His laughing catches singing loud
The memory of water
Your taste is blood and ecstasy
But I must d... |
One oclock and time for lunch
When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench
I can always hear them talk
Theres always been Ethel:
Jacob, wake up! Youve got to tidy your room now
And then Mister Lewis:
Isnt it time that he was out on his own?
Over the garden wall, two little lovebirds - cuckoo to you!
Keep them mowing ... |
I saw three ships come sailing in
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day
I saw three ships come sailing in
On Christmas Day in the morning
And what was in those ships all three
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day?
And what was in those ships all three
On Christmas Day in the morning?
The Virgin Mary and Christ were there
On... |
Raise your eyes to Englands skies
Theres more up there than butterflies
Alice smile and
Shes just about ready
She doesnt matter want it to know
The Hatter laughs his box aright
To the edition of the movie of the terminal night
So take Britannia by the hand
Waltz her through this problem land
Kiss the apocalypse good... |
I feel so strange; whats wrong with me?
Youve got a problem that you cant see
But Ive got a feeling that the rumours are true
I see the girl got a hook in you
You carry on believing
That you can take or leave it
Now who are you deceiving?
Cause when its own up time, shes in the back of your mind
Shes got her hooks in y... |
Oh, I just dont know where to begin
Love doesnt wait forever
Its now or never
But she keeps em hangin on
You said youre so alone
She says she cant go home without a chaperon
Accidents will happen
They only hit and run
You used to be a victim now youre not the only one
Accidents will happen
They only hit and run
I dont ... |
A ghost of a mist was on the field
The grey and the green together
The noise of a distant farm machine
Out of a the first light came
A tattered necklace of hedge end trees
On the southern side of the hill
Betrays where the border runs between
Where Mary Dunoons boy fell
Easter here again, a time for the blind to see
Ea... |
Catalogue princess, apprentice seductress
Hiding in her cellophane world in glitter town
Awaiting the prince in his white Capri
Dynamic young Tarzan courts the bedsit queen
Shes playing the actress in this bedroom scene
Shes learning her lines from glossy magazines
Stringing all her pearls from her childhood dreams
Aud... |
I am the assassin, with tongue forged from eloquence
I am the assassin, providing your nemesis
On the sacrificial altar to success, my friend
Unleash a stranger from a kiss, my friend
No incantations of remorse, my friend
Unsheathe the blade within the voice, my friend
Who decorates the scarf with the fugi knot
Who cam... |
Did anyone see my last marble
As it rolled out and over the floor?
It fell through a hole in the corner
Of a room in a town on a tour
Its lonely without your last marble
I miss it not ratting around
As I lie in my bed theres a space in my head
Where there used to be colours and sound... |
When the taxis gather in mock solemnity
Funeral hearses court the death of virginity
Was it paradise lost or paradise found?
Did we gain respect or were we holding ground?
You had found true love, or so you believed
And the wideboys tattooed your hearts upon their sleeves
So when you think its time to go
When you think... |
Manys the time I ran with you down
The rainy roads of your old town
Many the lives we lived in each day
And buried altogether
Don’t laugh at me
Dont look away
Youll follow me back
With the sun in your eyes
And on your own
Bedshaped
And legs of stone
You’ll knock on my door
And up well go
In white light
I dont think so
... |
She bought a bottle of cider
From the shop on the corner
They didnt stop her
Thought she was older
She took a bus ride
To a name and a number
A house full of music
And a hat full of wonder
And some of the people that
She thought that she knew
Were never like this
When she saw them at school
Shes never been anywhere lik... |
Do you remember
Chalk hearts melting on a playground wall?
Do you remember
Dawn escapes from moon washed college halls?
Do you remember
The cherry blossom in the market square?
Do you remember
I thought it was confetti in our hair?
By the way, didnt I break your heart?
Please excuse me I never meant to break your heart... |
Light switch, yellow fever, crawling up your bathroom wall
Singing psychedelic praises to the depths of a china bowl
Youve got venom in your stomach, youve got poison in your head
You should have listened to the priest at the confession
When he offered you the sacred bread
He knows, you know, he knows, you know
H e kno... |
Baby, cant you see Im calling
A guy like you
Should wear a warning
Its dangerous, Im fallin
Theres no escape
I cant wait, I need a hit
Baby, give me it
Youre dangerous, Im lovin it
Too high, cant come down
Losing my head
Spinning round and round
Do you feel me now
With a taste of your lips
Im on a ride
Youre toxic Im s... |
A hand held over a candle in angst fuelled bravado
A carbon trail scores a moist stretched palm
Trapped in the indecision of another fine menu
And you sit there and ask me to tell you the story so far
This is the story so far
Shuffling your memories dealing your doodles in margins
You scrawl out your poems across a bee... |
In the after-silence
Fighting leaves behind
I try to think it over
But my minds gone blind
I lost the right to argue
Somewhere down the line
I had to tell
She told me to
Go to hell
And here i am
In the gaping hole
Home truths tear in a home
Married to this hurting
I know its all my fault
Who can tell
Looks like we have... |
Joladadijoladadijoladadijoladadi
Joladadijoladadi-jo-o-ooh!
Joladadijoladadijoladadijoladadi
Joladadijoladadi-jo-o-ooh!
Oooooh-oooooh-oooooh-oooooh... |
Theres a hot hard hurt
Burning under her skin
And it pricks her like thorns
And its needles and pins
And it twists in her body
And I know what it is
And Im paying in pain
But its the cost of the high
Till the weight of the secret
And the weight of the lie
Makes my heart want to burst
Feel the ache as time goes by
Getti... |
I work all night, I work all day
To pay the bills I have to pay
Aint it sad
And still there never seems to be
A single penny left for me
Thats too bad
In my dreams I have a plan
If I got me a wealthy man
I wouldnt have to work at all
Id fool around and have a ball
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich mans worl... |
Pretty soon youll be able to remember her
Lying in the garden singing
Right where shell always be
The door is always open
This is the place that I loved her
And these are the friends that she had
Long may the mountain ring
To the sound of her laughter
And she goes on and on
In her soft wind I will whisper
In her warm s... |
So this is where she stands at night
On this cold avenue of lights
The red and greens but mostly reds
For you hes stopping
In seeing him she knows him less
His stick is wet, shes half undressed
And all and all theyre both obsessed
With so much nothing
I know its hard for you to see
What lies behinds a mystery
If words ... |
At that time of the night
When streetlights throw crosses through window frames
Paranoia roams where the shadows reign
Oh, at that time of the night
At that time of the night
Your senses tangled in some new perfume
Criticism triggers of a loaded room
Oh, at that time of the night
So if you ask me
How do I feel inside
I... |
When I was a young boy
I wanted to sail around the world
Thats the life for me, living on the sea
Spirit of a sailor, circumnavigates the globe
The lust of a pioneer, will acknowledge no frontier
I remember you by, thunderclap in the sky
Lightning flash, tempers flare
Round the horn if you dare
I just spent six months ... |
Good morning
Good morning
Good morning
Good morning
Good morning
Nothing to do to save his life, call his wife in
Nothing to say but What a day, hows your boy been?
Nothing to do, its up to you
Ive got nothing to say but Its okay
Good morning
Good morning
Good morning
Going to work, dont want to go, feeling low down
He... |
You landed in my life
Like a new and brighter light
That made all my past seem in the shadow
I always used to believe
That beauty was skin deep
But I need a new word to describe you
And the time that it took to take down the wall
Was the time that it took for me to fall
Hopelessly weak
No one can take you away from me ... |
If you were a baby I would take you and run
I could hide you in the folds of my heart
Theres a truth in the madness that I can’t get beyond
And a fever that wont leave me alone
I dont want my heart
Don’t want my head
Dont want my friends
Dont want my bed
I cant live with myself
I cant live with myself
Cant take no help... |
You may not recall the moment that you asked me
But your invitation was clear
Youll pretend youve never met me but its far to late
Now Im here
Cause Im the one who knows what scares you
Im the one who loves you best
Im the thirteenth at the table
Im the uninvited guest
Im the Banquo at your banquet
Im the cuckoo in you... |
Drive the road to your surrender
Time comes around... out of my hands
Small boats on the beach at the dead of night
Come and go before first light
Leave me running in the wheel
King of the world
How do you feel?
What is there to feel?
So how do we now come to be
Afraid of sunlight?
Tell me girl why you and me
Scared of... |
Blackberry Way absolutely pouring down with rain
Its a terrible day
Up with the lark, silly girl I dont know what to say
She was running away
But now Im standing on the corner
Lost in the things that I said
What am I supposed to do now?
Goodbye Blackberry Way
I cant see you, I dont need you
Goodbye Blackberry Way
Sure ... |
Now when you climb into your bed tonight
And when you lock and bolt the door
Just think of those out in the cold and dark
Cause theres not enough love to go round
No theres not enough love to go round
And sympathy is what we need my friends
And sympathy is what we need
And sympathy is what we need my friends
Cause ther... |
Do you remember?
Chalk hearts melting on a playground wall
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Dawn escapes from moon washed college halls
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The cherry blossom in the market square
Do you remember?
I thought it was confetti in our hair
By the way, didnt I break your heart?
Please excuse me, I never meant to break your hear... |
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