When I accepted this job
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I was resigned to my fate
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When I got there early
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She'd arrive late
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You can say she's gone forever
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Or just sit tight and wait
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She said I was unprincipled
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That I was not the first
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Like the Phoenix coming back
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From the ashes, uh-huh
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I know what's good,
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But I know what trash is
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In the head-lights,
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In the highlights of her hair...
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Hit the head lines
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But she's not there:
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_ chorus:
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Many happy returns
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Many happy returns
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These are the lessons I could have learned
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Return. Many happy returns
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And these are the letters I should have burned
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Okay, I'm sad, not blue
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Okay, remember
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All that matters to me now
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Is the message I sent her
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Like the world, spinning 'round
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On its axis, uh-huh
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I know democracy
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But I know what's fascist
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When she's gone, all I got to learn
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Is the law of diminishing return
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When she's here, one thing I've found
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Things get better second time around
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_ chorus
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Okay I'm sad, not blue
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Okay, remember
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All that matters to me now
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Is the message I sent her
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Now she's gone, she's gone away
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Now she's gone forget her
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Coming back another day
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If you'd only let her
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Now she's gone, she's gone away
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But she's gone forget her
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Coming back another day
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So why resurrect her?
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_ chorus
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Many Happy Returns
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