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well i left my baby for a dream as lovely, 
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for a love that's only in books i read. 

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and then i hit the cities, spent all my money,
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i just left my whole life in a taxi cab. 

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cause it's just a memory, i can't love completely, 
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when you're really with me, i'm indifferent.

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but i try to get my head clear,
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it's too full of ideas that i haven't thought of yet. 

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and time, clocks keep waving their hands,
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doing all that they can to get our attention, but

 
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the days fly away down a clean interstate 
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and i'm staring drunk at a map. 


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so i let my hair down for the second time now, 
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for the final time, now i had my fun. 

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but there's no returning from the places we've been, 
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just repeat our slogan, never again. 

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so we split, said you had to get out, 
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headed back to the south, where everything is gentle. 

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and i stayed for a couple weeks more,
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all the weather reports said it would be snow for sure,

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but the storm moved away to a neighboring state.
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i started the car.