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There are many different people, |
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Livin' double lives. |
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One for the office, |
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And one that they take home to their wives. |
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He sits in the armchair, watching channel 4, |
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With his brains not expected home for an hour or more. |
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He's still drifting to and fro, like a yo-yo. |
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His wife is in the kitchen, fixin' her old man's tea |
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She's thinking to herself, |
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"He's not the man that married me, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." |
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They used to laugh together, now he's never at home. |
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Now she's fighting back the tears, she can't even laugh alone. |
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She's just sitting by the telephone, like a yo-yo. |
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You needed me when you were crying, |
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But now you're laughing I'm the last thing on your mind. |
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First you love me, then you don't. |
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I'm up and down, |
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Like a yo-yo. |
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Yo-yo. |
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Ah, you thought you knew me pretty well, |
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But with people like me you never can tell. |
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You can only guess which way I'll go. |
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You got me sussed, but you don't know, |
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I'm a yo-yo. |
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Just like a yo-yo on a string. |
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I'm a yo-yo. |
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Little child playing with a yo-yo. |
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Yo-yo, yo-yo. |
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Girl you had me dangling, like a yo-yo on a string, |
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But with you at the controls I could accomplish anything, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
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You were just playing, I was a little boy, |
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But when I grew into a man you just threw away your toy, |
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Like a yo-yo. |
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Yo-yo. |
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You might be popular, but it won't last for long, |
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So don't give up the day job, in case it all goes wrong. |
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Look at your ego, watch it go, up and down, |
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Like a yo-yo. |
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Yo-yo. |
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You needed me when you were crying, |
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But now you're laughing I'm the last thing on your mind. |
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First you love me, then you don't. |
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I'm up and down, |
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Like a yo-yo. |
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Yo-yo. |
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I'm a yo-yo (yo-yo). |
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Like a yo-yo. |