| It was your birthday yesterday
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| I gave a gift that almost took your breath away
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| But to be honest I nearly left it on the train
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| For your lover give some time
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| You talk forever on the phone
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| To your mother and with my thoughts I’m left alone
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| Now and then I think: how strange our love has grown
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| For your lover give some time
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| I will give up these cigarettes
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| Stay at home and watch you mend the tears in your dress
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| Have your name in a rose tattooed across my chest
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| And be your lover for all time
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| Maybe I will drink a little less
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| Come home early and not complain about the death
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| And give you flowers from the graveyard now and then
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| For your lover give some time
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| I think of places that I’ve seen
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| A skipping stone across the ocean I have been
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| A rootless man with no one else to share my dream
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| And for my lover gave no time
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| Here’s is a toast to you Helene
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| To all the cinemas we ran in from the rain
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| Laughing clutching soaking newspapers to your face
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| And for your love you gave some time
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| I will give up these cigarettes
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| Stay at home and watch you mend the tears in your dress
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| Have your name in a rose tattooed across my chest
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| And be your lover for all time
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| Maybe I will drink a little less
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| Come home early and not complain about the death
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| And give you flowers from the graveyard now and then
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| And for my lover give some time
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| For your lover give some time |