She tried to hold me
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She tried to hold me
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She didn't know
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Love is letting go
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She said ˇ®I'm looking for perfection'
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As she strode in my direction
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She cast her mantle round me,
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Said ˇ®I'm completed since you found me'
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She executed her enchantment
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Secreted me in her encampment
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With diversions and pretences
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She dismantled my defences
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She tried to hold me
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She tried to hold me
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She didn't know
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Love is letting go
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She told me I was unrealistic
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And then she went ballistic
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In her powder blue pajamas,
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Me some flotsam in her drama
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She said ˇ°love's what I believe inˇ±
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But inside she was seething
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With a cyclone raging under
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Like she was skin surrounding thunder
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She tried to hold me
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She tried to hold me
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She didn't know
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Love is letting go
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I made it to the stairwell
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In the street I muttered farewell
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With a driving wind again me
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And shame exploding in me
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It took me six years to begin again
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To feel secure in my own skin again
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For she lingered like uranium
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Like a demon in my cranium
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She tried to hold me
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She tried to hold me
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She didn't know
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Love is letting go
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All this was long ago now
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And if I knew then what I know now
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I'd have deployed a little patience
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I'd have laughed at all her stipulations
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But I was young and I fumbled
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A boy-fool whose castle crumbled
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I couldn't save her
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Though I forgave her
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She tried to hold me
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She tried to hold me
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She didn't know
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Love is letting go
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She Tried To Hold Me
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| The Waterboys |
