| I come home late after closing the coffee shop
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| Make myself some dinner then get to drinking
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| And Peter down at the corner store
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| The young man, our friend remember?
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| Well, he’s moving on, he don’t work there anymore
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| I went by last night and he was gone
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| And I just wish I could tell you
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| Yeah, I just wish I could tell you
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| Wake up phone call from the LAPD
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| Say they wanna talk to me about the theft
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| Can’t say I haven’t been keeping busy
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| I couldn’t write a song, so I tried to play that song
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| That we used to sing together bout sailing
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| Couldn’t make it through the first verse
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| Without breaking down and crying
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| What the hell is wrong with me?
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| Hey I just wish we could sing it
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| Yeah, I just wish we could sing it
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| To answer your letter, most days I’m doing fine
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| But sometimes I still get deep, down, dark and feeling low
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| But now I wear sunglasses and a big jacket
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| And get so high that I can’t see the bottom, it helps a little
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| And when it’s too hard to handle I call Carlos and we talk it out
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| But I just wish I could call you
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| Yeah, I just wish I could call you
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| Remember that time we rode the train to San Mateo
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| And met up with my mom and her husband
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| She’d just found $ 20 on the ground
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| So she took us out to lunch, and it was raining
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| After that we said goodbye, and walked down to the tea gardens
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| Beneath our broken umbrella and when we got there it was closed
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| We did our best to enjoy ourselves despite it all
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| But by then the sun was setting on our problems
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| I want to say sorry
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| Yeah, I just wanna say sorry
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| I got this whole trunk of love poetry between us
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| That I can’t put away, or throw away, or even begin to think about So it just
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| sits in the window, waiting for the day when some new little rose is gonna be
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| heading on over
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| And I’ll just sweep it away, sweep our memories up
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| Like I’m making my bed, without thinking
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| Just like I’m making my bed, without thinking
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| And that’s no way to say thank you
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| Yeah, that’s no way to say thank you
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| That whole thing about the LAPD, it’s not as bad as it sounds
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| I just cashed a check for somebody that turned out to be stolen
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| And I think I did it 'cause I was lonely
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| I got the call today that the bank’s gonna pay restitution
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| But there was a while there where I thought I was gonna get thrown in a cell or
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| be on the line for 5000 dollars
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| And you don’t know the first thing about it, beginning, middle or end
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| But it’s still you that arrest me and robs me
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| Still you that arrest me and robs me
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| Still you that arrest me and robs me
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| Still you that arrest me and robs me
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| Still you that arrest me and robs me
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| Still you that arrest me and robs me
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| Still you that arrest me and robs me
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| Still you that arrest me and robs me |