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Geraldine
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Simon Joyner
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Listen all your lovers and would-be lovers to my tale
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The moral of the story is not hidden
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Though there are some lies along the way to disguise the details
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The broad stroke of this picture shall render its true meaning
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I first collided with Geraldine on a Tuesday I believe
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It was so very long ago still I remember
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She just drifted by my window while I was pretending to be me
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Not yet realizing I was already forever changed by seeing her
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Into the cafe on the street where the faux French girls fake their slang
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While trying to sink their teeth into each other
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And all of them so dainty they must fan themselves all day
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Claiming the breath of the walking deathly homesick G.I. sufferers
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Geraldine sat alone of course nobody knew her name
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But I watched her from a field of wallflowers
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I can't remember why I ever started hanging around that place
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All anybody ever did was dream of dreary California
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The second time I saw Geraldine she asked me for a light
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She was trying to read a map in a shattered doorway
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I asked where she was running to or from or was it who
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She asked if I was talking back or moving forward
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Soon we were doing everything we could do to fall in love
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We tumbled from the trees into the water
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For awhile we were as close as the light-bulb and the moth
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Bouncing off a wall as it grew hotter and hotter
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But one day I was tempted by a fleeting song I heard
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Whispered from the mouth of a passing stranger
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Who said everything happens for a reason and I deferred
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Not yet realizing I was already very much in danger
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The walls were yellow and thin and there was no window I could open
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And she just laughed into her pillow until she cried
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And because it was a loathsome thing I did it once again
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With a mirth that was disposable and a lament I couldn't hide
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When the stranger disappeared I couldn't stomach my face
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What will I do now that I have betrayed Geraldine
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I cowered through the market and purchased every angry grape
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And made a wine so bitter even the drunkards appeared clean
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I woke up on a Sunday and Geraldine was boiling milk
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"You've been far away," she said as if convincing me
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"I am further still," I said, "than you may really want to know"
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She raised a finger to her lips to say I should be listening
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"I've been where you stand," she said, "once I was woeful and careless
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But I believe everything happens for a reason."
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Well there it is again, I thought, and ready to confess
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But she said "Only the guilty are ever really innocent."
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