Tonart: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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And for open suburban parking zones
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Each December,
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there's a pact unspoken
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I leave my car and walk past
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all the empty homes
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To the two -story red brick with veranda
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It's been empty now for
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three whole days
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Each year, the doctor and
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his wife Amanda
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They take off to the coast
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for their holidays
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Is beauty merely a trick of the light?
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Or was all the light merely forgery?
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I wait in the park for the falling night
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I remember how it used to be
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Just you and me
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Drunk on the promise of new music
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Thank God they still
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leave windows open
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All the better to enter without a sound
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They never count on intrusion
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from some interloper
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The one who once lived right here,
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just prowling around
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But I leave it all where I find it
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Not one trace that I've been there at all
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I'll need to be here just to be reminded
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If I squint through the wine
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and the streetlight I see it all
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Was beauty merely a trick of the light?
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Was all the life merely forgery?
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In this bathroom you'd fuss
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till your makeup was right
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And oh, such a sight you'd be
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You'd smile at me
Drunk on the promise of
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New Year's Eve
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Now you've gone and
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you were always a ship that moved largest
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on my shore.
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From here you see clear to the city
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Post -open plan conversion,
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fine art on display
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the shame and self -pity
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The fireworks are still burnin' bright
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And their flash hits the fan on the ceiling
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And I'll flash back through memories
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of our time around
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Sittin' here in the same room
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where your mind was sing -a -leelin'
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When you came home early
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An d you found what you found
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I treated beauty as a trick of the light
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And I treated the light as if forgery
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Now I can't erase my deceit
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from your eyes
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But you sure as hell did erase me
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I fall to my knees, drunk on the promise of New Year's
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Eve
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Music
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Music
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