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Her window looked on North Church Street |
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An attic space overgrown |
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A photo book of smiling friends |
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Road maps, New York, Los Angeles |
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Her walls are Mediterranean blue |
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Her baby sister picked the hue |
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Saltwater taffy, Jersey shore |
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Blue like the fingernails she wore |
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Her house is not far from the school |
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Her mom taught on the Hudson |
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Her dad's guitar sings open-tuned |
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Reverberates up through the floor |
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Our love grew more one summer there |
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Where we'd spend our days just driving around |
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Old parking lots and neighborhoods |
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Are framed and charmed in Moorestown |
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I followed her across the earth |
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Through parks in London, coasts of Perth |
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Newport, Kentucky, New Orleans |
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We shared a million lives, it seems |
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I slept with her so many nights |
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We moved together heavenly |
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So close the North Pacific slept |
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You too were once beside me |
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She moved away to Williamsburg |
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Her eyes, sad eyes were waving |
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My thoughts will pause, my throat will swell |
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When her name is spoken |
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And looking past the cold long sea |
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I cannot bear to wonder now |
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If the cascading soft lights |
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Are glowing for us in Moorestown |