When Alexander met Emma
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The first day she came to New York
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Sachs's Cafe in Manhattan
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Coffee and cigarettes and talk
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Sun beating down on the East Side
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Introductions are made in the haze
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Emma, meet Alexander -
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Emma just smiles as she says:
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"Take my hand. I'll take yours.
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Save my life. I'll save yours."
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Life stretches loudly before her
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From the Bowery to old Suffolk Street
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A five dollar bill in her pocket
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And a worldful of people to meet
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Ships rigging up in the Hudson
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Waiting for love to set sail
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Emma she tells Alexander
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"I'll be there when you walk from the jail"
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"Take my hand. I'll take yours.
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Save my life. I'll save yours."
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Newspaper talk turns to headlines
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A love so cemented in fame
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A word to the strike-breaking bosses
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Propaganda in deed and in name
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Fourteen long years on the island
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It's a lifetime of summers to wait
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And Emma, she meets Alexander
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As they unlock the last prison gate
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"Take my hand. I'll take yours.
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Save my life. I'll save yours."
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When Alexander Meets Emma
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| Chumbawamba |
