And the days they flew by
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And the leaves fell from the trees
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And many times you came around
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And many times you slept with me
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And every time that we made love
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You wrote it down in your diary
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Lady of ladies
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But I would always say to you
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Don't ask about tomorrow
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Give what you have, take what you need
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Your time is only now
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Don't try to tie me down to promises
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I live for today, today is all there is
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And freedom seems to be everything to me
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I took you down to a party
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On the night of the 4th of May
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And a strange and growing restlessness
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Had hung in the air all day
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The need to try and tear down
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And destroy all that we'd made
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Lady of ladies
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You whispered in my ear and asked me
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If I fancied her
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You told me that he'd phoned you
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When I was in America
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Daring each other just to say okay
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Swap for tonight, didn't I always say
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That freedom seems to be everything to me
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And she came and she sat down beside me
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And you found an excuse to go downstairs
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And she smiled and made
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The kind of conversation that you do
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And later on she said
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'My last train has gone
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Oh I wonder if you could run me home'
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And I found vou in the hallway and told you
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That was all that I would do
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Just run her home and it's through
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Oh I thought you knew
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But I must confess
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I laid my head on her breast
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And it seemed so hard
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To pull it away
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Her hand touched my hand
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And her eyes were offering the rest
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If it wasn't for you, oh I would have stayed
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But I came back home through the morning
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To find you lying awake
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And I knew all at once what you'd done
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And I heard myself say
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"Why did you have to sleep with him
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Anyone else Wouldn't have mattered
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Half
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As much as him"
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I don't want to touch you
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Somehow you feel unclean
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I just wish that you
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Were five hundred miles away from me
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Don't talk at all, don't start to cry
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Just pack up your things
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Lady of ladies
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And though I'd always told myself
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That when our time ended
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I'd walk away with no regrets
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And no attempts to stay
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Somehow it doesn't seem to be that way
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I find I'm needing every word you say
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This freedom seems to be everything to me
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And you went up to Cambridge
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And you stayed in your brother's room
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And you wrote me a letter and sent it the same afternoon
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You said "I just want to hurt myself
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Oh I need you so badly now"
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And you told me
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"Without you there seems to be no horizon at all
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Just no crack in the wall
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No place lower to fall
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"Hey don't leave me, don't leave me
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The shapelessness of the dawn
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Floods above and beneath me,
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I can't go on"
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And I had to walk right into the trap
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And I had to say please come back
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Though I felt all the while
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My resistance slipping away
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Why did I have to fall for you
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Anyone else
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Wouldn't have hurt me
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Half
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As much as you
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Night Of The 4th Of May
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| Al Stewart |
