It was 1927
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Had the world at my feet
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A pretty girl on each arm
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My family was so proud of me
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I built a lot of buildings
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Tore half of 'em down
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One by one
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They all crumbled just like me
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But like a storm in a teacup
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Like a smile sent down
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from heaven
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Madge, I loved you then
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and I love you now
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<Interlude>
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We ate in the finest restaurants
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Had the wealthiest friends
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Most of them are gone now
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No one left to say
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I knew you when
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It seems so long
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since I've remembered
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the girl I used to know
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She never saw any of my money
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But she watched it come and go
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Like a storm in a teacup
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like a smile sent down
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from heaven
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Madge I loved you then
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and I love you now
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<Interlude>
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They call this place Sunnyside
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But I ain't seen the sun
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in a long, long time
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And my hands don't
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seem too steady now
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But they're still holding
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onto you
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<Interlude>
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Madge, she's probably married
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now in a nice white house
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and me I just sit here
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in my room
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Quiet as a mouse
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But I got my TV turned up loud
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I'm not going to
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hear myself retreat
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If only I'd have kept her
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I'd have stayed on my feet
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Like a storm in a teacup
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like a smile sent down
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from heaven
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Madge I loved you then
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and I love you now
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Madge I loved you then
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and I love you now
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Madge
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Stephen Bishop |