| Spoken:
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| You know tonight is a very important night
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| For me for a number of reasons
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| My little girl is here tonight
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| And I don’t think you understand
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| What it’s like being the daughter of
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| Someone who’s always gone
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| It’s kind of scary and it’s kind of lonely
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| And I guess she thinks to herself sometimes
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| «Is mummy ever going ever gonna come home?»
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| And so my daughter looked up at me
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| Last week and she said «mummy
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| When are you just gonna stay home
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| One day and be with me»?
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| And so it kinda struck me funny
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| And I didn’t realize that I hadn’t spent
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| Anytime with her for a long time
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| So I sat down and wrote down this song
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| After she went to bed
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| And I told her tonight when it was bedtime
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| I would sing her son
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| I bet you ask yourself
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| Why I’m never there
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| It’s not because I like being away
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| You see I’ve made a spectacle of myself
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| And it seems that the whole world needs me
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| I understand when you cry alone
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| And mama’s not there to wipe your eyes
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| You see it’s only because
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| I’m out being someone to make you cry
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| I got a little letter
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| And I read it on the plane
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| And in my heart I felt a funny kind of pain
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| I wish that I could be there
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| To touch your face again
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| Mimi you’re beautiful
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| Mimi you’re mine
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| And other things that I do in my life
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| Seem to take up all your precious time
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| There’s so much I long to say
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| So much more I long to do
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| But I guess it’s all just have to wait
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| Till I can get to see you
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| Mimi you’re mine
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| Oh, Mimi you’re mine
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| Oh, Mimi you fill my life
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| You fill my life with so much love
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| Cause you’re beautiful
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| And you love me
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| And you’ll understand
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| Mimi it’s bedtime say Goodnight
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| «Goodnight» |