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He sits by the bed
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Watches while she sleeps
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Her favourite book of poems lies
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Just beyond reach
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He walks to the doorway
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He turns before he goes
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She starts to stir as he
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Turns the light down low and says
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You be Marianne and I'll be Lenny
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Together we'll live on the isle of hydra
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There in that land of plenty
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We'll be there till the end of time
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Eat tangerines and oranges
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They bring down from the hills
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Drink retsina at the cafe
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And watch, watch what time never kills
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And never grow old
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And never watch old friends die
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And like Peter Pan
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We'll be captain of that steel blue sky
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CHORUS
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Things would be so much simpler then
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No need for fantasy, and no pretense
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Wouldn't watch old friends die
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Captains of our own design
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We'll be there till the end of
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We'll be there till the end of time
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He sits by the bed
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Watches while she sleeps
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Her favourite book of poems lies
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Just beyond reach
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CHORUS
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MARIANNE AND LENNY
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Tom Cochrane |