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Simon Joyner
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I burned all the love letters I had ever received
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And I took the hot ashes and laid them at the cold queen's feet
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But she didn't shed a tear at all
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She just gave the order to raise a wall
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To keep the lovers out and the others in
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Then I was free to leave
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Well I thought it was safe to turn around rest and relax
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What with all those familiar faces piled up in the past
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But with a trail so scorched and torn and poorly patched
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There are holes that pull the precious into a collapse
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If you stop to blink
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So don't be surprised
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If your memory dies
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And your will simply fades
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Like a marching parade
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Dwindling down a dark street
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Did your heart skip a beat
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Or did time pass you by
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While you were wiping the sand from your eye?
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I thought you were going to follow me through these lonesome valleys
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But now I'm facing scraping this stone wall all alone
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And all the ghosts who once pursued me
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And routinely abused me
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They're no longer enthused enough
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To do me any wrong
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So it goes
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I ran across a stranger who said he knew me when
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He said "Last I heard you were in need of some oxygen
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So tell me how can you hear the phone to say
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That there ain't nobody home today
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When you're drifting along the bottom of the ocean?"
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I said "I'm afraid we've never met"
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So don't be surprised
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If your memory dies
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And your will simply fades
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Like a marching parade
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Dwindling down a dark street
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Did your heart skip a beat
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Or did time pass you by
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While you were wiping a tear from your eye?
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