My big day, it was the biggest day of my life.
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It was the summit of my long career,
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But I felt so down, and I drank too much beer,
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The management said that I shouldn't appear.
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I walked out onto the stage and started to speak.
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The first night I've missed for a couple of years,
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I explained to the crowed and they started to jeer,
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And just when I wanted no one to be there,
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All of my friends were there.
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Not just my friends, but their best friends too.
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All of my friends were there to stand and stare,
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Say what they may, all of their friends need not stay.
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Those who laughed were not friends anyway.
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All of my friends were there to stand and stare.
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Days went by, I walked around dressed in a disguise.
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I wore a mustache and I parted my hair,
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And gave the impression that I did not care,
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But oh, the embarrassment, oh, the dispair.
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Came the day, helped with a few large glasses of gin,
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I nervously mounted the stage once again,
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Got through my performance and no one complained,
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Thank God I can go back to normal again.
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I went to that old cafe,
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Where I had been in much happier days,
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And all of my friends were there,
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And no one cared.
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Say what they may, all of my friends were there.
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Not just my friends, but their best friends too.
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All of my friends were there,
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Now I don't care.
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All Of My Friends Were There
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| The Kinks |
