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We were together since we were five |
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She was so pretty |
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Emma was a star in everyone's eyes |
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And when she said she'd be a movie queen |
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Nobody laughed |
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Her face like an angel, she could be anything |
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Emmalene Emma, |
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Emmalene I'm gonna write your name high on that silver screen |
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Emmalene Emma, |
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Emmalene I'm gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever seen |
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At seventeen we were wed |
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And worked day and night to earn our daily bread |
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And every day |
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Emma would go out searching for that play |
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That never ever came her way |
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You know sometimes she'd come home so depressed |
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I'd hear her crying in the back room feeling so distressed |
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And I'd remember back when she was five |
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To the words that used to make |
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Emmalene come alive |
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It was Emmalene |
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Emma, Emmalene |
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I'm gonna write your name high on that silver screen |
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Emmalene Emma, |
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Emmalene I'm gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever seen |
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It was cold and dark |
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December night |
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When I opened the bedroom door |
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To find her lying still and cold up on the bed |
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A love letter lying on the bedroom floor |
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It read, "Darling, I love you. But I just can't keep on living on dreams no more. I tried so very hard not to leave you alone. I just can't keep on tryin' no more." |
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Emmalene Oh, |
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Emmalene Emmalene |