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Operator, number please, it's been so many years |
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She'll remember my old voice while I fight the tears |
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Hello, hello there is this Martha, |
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This is ol' Tom Frost |
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Now I'm calling long distance don't worry 'bout the cost |
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It's been twenty years or more now Martha please recall |
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And meet me out for coffe where we'll talk about it all |
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And...those were days of roses of poetry and prose |
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And Martha all I had was you and all you had was me |
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There was no tomorrow |
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We packed away our sorrows and saved 'em for a rainy day and |
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I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you |
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I feel so much older now, you're much older too |
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How's the husband, and how's the kids, you know I got married too |
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Lucky that you found someone who makes you feel secure |
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We were all so young and foolish, now we are mature |
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I was always so impulsive, guess that I still am |
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But all that really mattered then was that I was a man |
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Guess that our bein' together was never meant to be |
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But, Martha, Martha, I love you, can't you see and... |