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don't tell me you don't know what love is |
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When you're old enough to know better |
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When you find strange hands in your sweater |
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When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote |
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I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions |
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And i'm giving you a longing look |
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Everyday, everyday, everyday i write the book |
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Chapter one we didn't really get along |
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Chapter two i think i fell in love with you |
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You said you'd stand by me in the middle of chapter |
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Three |
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But you were up to your old tricks in chapters |
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Four, five and six |
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The way you walk |
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The way you talk, and try to kiss me, and laugh |
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In four or five paragraphs |
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All your compliments and your cutting remarks |
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Are captured here in my quotation marks |
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Don't tell me you don't know the difference |
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Between a lover and a writer |
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With my pen and my electric typewriter |
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Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal |
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I'd still own the film rights and be working on the |
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Sequel |