Look at me, I'm in my glory
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Like a child, who loves a story
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Pinching myself just to see
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If you're really here with me
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Nothing good can last for long
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So when you feel like moving on
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Break it to me gently
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How I wish that we could make
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Love for as long as it can take
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Wear each other out, and then
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Stop and start it all again
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All my life I dreamt of this
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And if a dream is all this is
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Break it to me gently
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And, I don't want to sound a bore
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What will be will be I know
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But there's no harm in asking
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For when you have a beauty rare
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Why can it not be everlasting
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Is it true what I hear whispered
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You get tired of men so quick
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That it's now become a standing joke
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How long will the next one cope
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If there isn't the doubt
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And I'm the next to be kicked out
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Break it to me gently
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And, I don't want to sound a bore
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What will be will be I know
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But there's no harm in asking
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You've been through all this before
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Could this one not be ever-lasting
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Optimistic though I am
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Things will remain the way they stand
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Nevertheless there is this fear
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You might one day disappear
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I just hope that if it's true
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You will have the decency to
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Break it to me gently
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If and when the time arrives
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Don't just leave me high and dry
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Break it to me gently
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Break It To Me Gently
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Gilbert O'Sullivan |