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  Dear diary, what a day it's been
  It was cold out, side my door
  It's over, will tomorrow be the same

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Dear diary, it's been just like a dream
So many, people by the score
I know that, they're really not to blame

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Woke up too late, wasn't where I should have been
Rushing around, so senselessly
If they weren't so blind, then surely they'd see

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For goodness sake, what's happening to me
They don't notice, there's people like me
There's a much better way, for them to be

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Write lightly, yours truly, dear diary        Go (2)
Write lightly, yours truly, dear diary
Inside me, yours truly, dear diary            Go &

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They don't know what they're playing
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No they've no way of knowing what the game is
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So they carry on doing what they can
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Outside me, and politely, dear diary      Go (3)

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 Dear diary, it was cold today
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 Bit of sun came out later
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So I went out and strolled about looking at the shops
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 Didn't really see anything I liked, so I didn't buy anything
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     On the way home I posted a letter
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  Been quite a nice day
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 Somebody exploded an H-bomb today,     afraid it wasn't anybody I knew