| I can’t pretend that all is well, it’s like I’m haunted by a ghost
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| There are times I cannot speak your name for the catchin' in my throat,
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| There are things I will not sing for the sting of sour notes.
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| I feel like a miser, I feel low and mean
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| For accusing you of stealin' what I offered you for free.
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| Still it baffles the belief sometimes what thieves we lovers be.
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| I don’t know who you’re with these days, might be with someone new
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| And if you are, I hope he treats you like a lover ought to do.
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| But whoever makes you happy, it don’t really matter who
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| I’ve got a new lover now, I hope you’ve got a lover too.
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| Praise the water under bridges, the time they say will heal
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| Praise the fonder, that still grows on the absent heart and fields
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| Praise be to this pain, these days it’s all I seem to feel.
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| Perhaps the fault was mine
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| Perhaps I just ignored who you’re always gonna be,
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| Instead of who I took you for.
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| I’ve been treated worse it’s true, still I expected more.
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| But I will not chase your shadow as you go from room to room,
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| Droppin' handkerchiefs and daggers, smokin' guns and other clues
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| For what someone did with someone and who did what to who.
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| I’ve got a new lover now, I hope you’ve got a lover too.
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| I’ve got a new lover now, I know that she’s not mine,
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| I only want to hold her, I don’t need to read her mind,
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| And she only looks like you when she’s in a certain light.
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| I got a new lover now, she knows just what I need.
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| When I wake up in the night, she can read me back my dreams,
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| And she loves them, though she never needs to tell me what they mean.
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| I hope you’ve got a lover now, hope you’ve got somebody who
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| Can give you what you need like I couldn’t seem to do.
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| But if you’re sad and you are lonesome and you’ve got nobody true,
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| I’d be lying if I said that didn’t make me happy too.
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| I’d be lying if I said that didn’t make me happy too. |