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Don't tell me you don't know what love is
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When you're old enough to know better
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WHEN YOU FIND STRANGE HANDS IN YOUR SWEATER
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When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote
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I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions
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And I'm giving you a longing look
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Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book
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Chapter One we didn't really get along
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Chapter Two I think I fell in love with you
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You said you'd stand by me in the middle of Chapter Three
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But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters Four, Five and Six
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The way you walk
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The way you talk, and try to kiss me, and laugh
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In four or five paragraphs
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All your compliments and your cutting remarks
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Are captured here in my quotation marks
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Don't tell me you don't know the difference
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Between a lover and a fighter
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With my pen and my electric typewriter
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Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal
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I'd still own the film rightsand be working on the sequel
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Everyday I Write The Book
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| Elvis Costello & The Attractio |
