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Little boy |
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Why did you have to chase me so hard |
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Didn't your mother show you what to do |
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Didn't your father |
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Tell you not to push |
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Little boy |
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We could have been great friends |
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But you frightened me to death you see |
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You made a |
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Rabbit out of me |
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And now we can't go back to being anything |
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Perhaps I ought to thank you |
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For you |
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Took my innocence away |
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And made me cruel |
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How did you know |
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I'd need that later on |
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You taught me to hide |
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And you taught me to lie |
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And to tremble at the telephone |
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To scream |
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But never cry |
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Surely you were wise beyond your years |
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For you planted in me unknown fears |
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That since I've met time and again |
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I wish I could have known it then |
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I might have been grateful for the experience |
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Rather than for the darkness |
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So useful to the hunted deer who doesn't know the way |
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But really I would not have known |
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Into how many arms |
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A girl will let herself be thrown |
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Just to escape |
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The one who wants her most |
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Better to dance with ten |
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Who won't remember her name |
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Than to be asked by one who can't forget it |
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Little boy |
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You made me feel guilt that day |
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Which never fully went away |
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You told the world you hated me |
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And that's when I began to see |
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How much it must have hurt |
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To have dressed up |
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In your first clean shirt |
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And hope like hell she'd understand |
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The things you felt |
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And take your hand |
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But damn you little boy |
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I never had a chance |
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You couldn't see I wasn't ready |
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For what you monsters |
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Call romance |
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Little boy |
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You never looked at me the same |
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As though you didn't know my name |
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And in the end |
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You made me hate |
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Myself for hurting you |
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But no one ever |
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Stopped to tell me what I ought to do |
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Little boy |
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Maybe someday |
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You'll walk my way |
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And listen to the song I play |
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And if you're still fond of passing notes |
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Perhaps we'll shed our children's coats |
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And talk an hour or two of what's become of us |
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And why |
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That finally we might say hello |
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Forgive |
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And say goodbye |
