She bought a ticket on a midnight train
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To a place she'd never leave again
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She blamed it all on her daddy's sins
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I blamed it all on me
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And I was just a foolish boy
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It was love enough to fill the void
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Said the words to hear the noise
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It was deafening
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I never knew that things would change
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What we were then, what we became
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Oh, we were seventeen
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They found her there late that night
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On a bed under hotel lights
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Trying to make a couple wrong things right
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Start over clean
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She never did say goodbye
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I never did apologize
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I knew the words, but I could not lie
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I just watched her leave
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Watched her leave
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I never knew that things would change
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What we were then, what we became
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Oh, we were seventeen
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We wasted time, we wasted tears
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We waved goodbye to golden years
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Oh, we were seventeen
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Beneath the wreckage there's a reason, a reason
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Something they looked so hard to see
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I took and placed the blame
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But still I feel the same
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Someone just say it wasn't me
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I don't think about her like I should
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I used to try but it did no good
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She'd forgive me if she only could
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We were seventeen
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Seventeen
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| Dave Barnes |
