tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30039522558004834732024-02-21T01:45:19.965+00:00@MattAbbottPoetSelected poetry plus all 'Skint and Demoralised' lyrics in chronological order@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-52994712987509177802012-11-09T22:58:00.000+00:002018-10-04T15:34:00.544+01:00Breakfast at Sylvia's<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sylvia's hands wipe the table cloth,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">blending with the colour as she goes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">bed and chubby in the most part,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">but white and frayed around the knuckles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There's no coffee on the menu,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">two lumps of sugar as standard in your tea,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and so much food you can't eat again for a week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A portrait of Dusty Springfield hangs proudly above my table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pet Clark sings softly on the radio, closely followed by Chuck Berry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I flick through the back pages of a worthless rag,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and then sigh with comfort as my spoon dances and sings;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">swirling semi-skimmed around my steaming hot mug.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This cosy little café on the corner of Kingsway:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">a home away from home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">but since Sylvia stuck the heating on it feels like dining in a jacuzzi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Six years you've been coming", she smiles, with silver in the jar,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"and you know love, you matter where you go, we'll never be too far."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I sit back down, fiddle for a fag,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and then sink into the warmth of my final five minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And if you wanna go out, why don't you say so?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And if you wanna drive me home, why don't you say so?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And if you wanna meet up, and then the lights off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And if you wanna go out, why don't you say so?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I'm just about to leave when we're interrupted;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">prompted by the chimes above the door,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">all eyes are guided to a stranger's face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She looks timid, but still struts as she makes her way towards the counter:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">her phone's died, the car's broken down and she needs to make a call.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In an instant she's outrageously out of place;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">like a reasoned smile on a doctrinaire,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">like a tropical bird at Trafalgar Square;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">she's pierced the afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We're all at a loss for what to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don't need to tell you how stunning she is, and not only that,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">she'd slip seamlessly into Sylvia's age twice over;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and leave the poor woman blushing at the years to spare as she fumbles about for the handset.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I shift my eyes to force distraction, and then I see him:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the sun tan, the side parting,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the linen shirt and the Aston Martin:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the Don Juan of Horbury.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wipe the baked bean juice from the corner of my mouth,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">comfort for too long has cursed me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and I never see this café again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And if you wanna go out, why don't you say so?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And if you wanna drive me home, why don't you say so?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And if you wanna drive me home, why don't you say so?</span></div>
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-16877240522898352782012-09-09T22:03:00.000+01:002018-10-04T15:33:59.674+01:00Amores Perros<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Every time Leeds concede a goal,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">and then shielding my eyes from the early morning sun</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I walk up South Parade towards Fitzgeralds</span></span></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I catch a flashing glance from the old boy who sits outside</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">He looks right at home there with his pint of ale and his morning paper, but his eyes look lost; as if he’s waiting for something, and yet he knows it’ll never happen</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">He’s got a Newcastle United badge on his coat, so he probably isn’t too far wrong</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I type out a text and delete it, stood opposite the York House Hotel</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I try calling and don’t get an answer, but that’s probably just as well</span></span></b></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">She told me about him last night, but not of her own volition</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">And the thing that winds me up is that I didn’t feel a hint of suspicion</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">On those nights we spent alone, we were the only two alive; </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">in this sunless hole, this paradise, and with only love to survive</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I remember the first thing she told me</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">as we both gazed out to sea</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">"They’re all just Nymphs & Thugs"</span></span></b></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Well what the fuck does make me?</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I climb aboard the 308 and buy a single ticket</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">My head rests against the window, which gently vibrates</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Waves crash against the slim Northumbrian coast in the distance</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Seagulls float around gracefully in ravenous packs</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">She didn’t tell me his name; she didn’t have to</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">That doesn’t bother me in the slightest</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">His very existence is my moistened Adam’s apple; </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">the saliva in my throat that’s ready to wretch at any given moment</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I think of all those nights when she told me that she was crippled by her loneliness,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">and that she felt suffocated and buried alive whenever she contemplated her future</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">When she told me how scared she was</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">and how nobody would even notice if she necked a bottle of Bombay; </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">leaping from the Pier, never to be seen again</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">And all the while I believed her, and Christ, I even cried for her</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">And all the while she’s been texting me</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">and then not answering her phone because he’s fucking her in her Mum’s box bedroom</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">and then texting me back once he’s fallen asleep</span></span></b></span></div>
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<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">telling me that her phone slipped under the cushion whilst she was watching TV</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">or that she’d left it upstairs and not realised</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">or that there was no signal in the pub when she was out with the girls...</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
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<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">They’re the words that she used to describe them</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Every single man she’s ever met</span></span></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">“They’re all just Nymphs & Thugs; </span></span></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">and you’re the only decent one I’ve seen yet”</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yeah, well that was then, but now I know the truth</span></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Now I know about him; the other man,</span></span></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">the man who holds her; </span></span></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">keeps her stowed away in this soulless shithole</span></span></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">And now I’m on my way to win her back</span></span></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I get off at the Bus Station on Bridge Street</span></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I cut along Union Street to get to Plessey Road</span></span></b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I walk alongside Croft Park where the Spartans play; </span></span></b></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">past the clubhouse and through the back alley leading to Cypress Gardens</span></span></b></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I turn left onto Princess Louise Road </span></span></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">and then straight across the big green roundabout at Broadway Circle</span></span></b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">“They’re all just Nymphs & Thugs"</span></span></b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I walk past the broken cash machine and then further down Princess Louise Road</span></span></b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I turn left onto Newsham Road; </span></span></b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">this is where I start to feel sick</span></span></b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">My heart begins to palpitate; I find it hard to breathe</span></span></b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I light another fag</span></span></b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">A lengthy queue at the bus stop scowls and observes; </span></span></b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">confused and concerned, disgusted but reserved</span></span></b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Fearful maybe; but they needn't bother</span></span></b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I’m no danger to anyone besides my own sorry self...</span></span></b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">“They’re all just Nymphs & Thugs”</span></span></b></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I reach the Co-Op on the corner of Southend Avenue; </span></span></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I try calling her again. No answer</span></span></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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</div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I send her a text telling her to expect a knock on the door</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I leave nothing but beer and bile in the bin</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I loiter outside the Co-Op and then turn left onto Wordsworth Avenue</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I decide to take the long way around. I check my phone; but no response</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Wordsworth Avenue becomes Shelley Crescent</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I follow the curve around the green, and then I’m stood on Byron Avenue</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is where she lays her head at night</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">This is where she cries and this is where she dreams</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">This is where he holds her close</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">and this is where she’s used me as a Councillor and a Therapist;</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">always there at the end of the line, just to make her feel a bit better about herself</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">And whilst I’d been building us a future</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">this is where she dwelled on nothing but the past</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">She told me that she was scared of the future; but I knew I was gonna make it better</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">It was outside that clubhouse when I thought I’d stolen her away; </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">beside the lamppost and the bushes, safe from all the disarray</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">And I told her, “It’s never enough for me just to know you’re nearby"</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">But her shoulders were hunched; she couldn’t look me in the eye</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">This was tension that she carried; not the usual mystique,</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">and then her lips became a blade; and the beautiful was bleak</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">And that’s when it hit me; that feeling that Billy talked about</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">That sickening sense of loss, that despair that just leaves you feeling redundant</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And now I stand here, outside her house, all alone</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">And I’ve never felt so alone in my life</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">And I can’t help but thinking</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
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<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">that maybe she’s lying; maybe she’s just scared that I’ll fall short</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
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<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">and she’ll end up even worse than she was before</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
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<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Maybe she’s just shacked-up for a fortnight with a local loser, </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
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<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">hoping it’ll scare me off and leave her alone for good</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Her curtains twitch, and then her cool, cold face emerges</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Hers is a radiance that makes you forget yourself in an instant</span></span></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">She stands there like a porcelain statue: </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">From here she looks breathtakingly beautiful, </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">but up close she’s riddled with cracks</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Her front door flies open, a<span style="vertical-align: baseline;">nd he’s frog-marching towards</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">“They’re all just Nymphs & Thugs," a</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">nd these girls are their rewards</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I use every muscle in my body, to stay here standing still; </span></span></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">one half is petrified, one half's inclined to kill</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">He measures me and sneers; and it’s almost like he’s pouting</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">She’s still inside her bedroom; crying now and shouting</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">The neighbours ponder my demise or ITV</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">and then he breaks my nose like you might make a cup of tea</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal;"></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And as he beats me, I fall towards the floor</span></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I kiss this bed of concrete, lie begging him for more</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">This sends a wave of rage towards his Neanderthalic brain; </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">but for his woman that waits above? This is a fraction of the pain</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He finally stops; he spits and takes a breath</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">He leaves me here defeated; an inch away from death</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">He walks inside, and I just crawl towards the curb; </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<br />
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">like a dying dog; I’m graceful, not wishing to disturb</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wait for her to come down and help me lick my wounds</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">But there’s an eerie silence, and that tells me everything I need to know</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Well he’s just given her a damn good reason to be scared, </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">and who knows, maybe she does want to come down and see me, but she can’t</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Maybe he’d raise a fist to her as well; who knows</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">But then again she could’ve told me sooner</span></span></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">She could’ve prevented this</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I guess love's a pretty terrifying burden, and by Christ it doesn't half fuck around with your brain</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">“It’s time to take the bit between my teeth,” that’s what I’ve told myself all along</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
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<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Yeah, well more fool me for going where I wasn’t wanted...</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
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<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I hope she’s rife with guilt; and lying crippled on her floor</span></b></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">
</b></span>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.02267950982786715" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">I hope she dies of shame after fighting a fifty year war; </span></b></span></b></span></div>
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-77495842284339354822011-10-19T23:06:00.000+01:002018-10-04T15:34:01.309+01:00Chippenham Travelodge<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Always from the very deepest snoozing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When wishful thinking's waking me confused</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I toss and then I turn and then I strain</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just to have a slight distraction populate my brain</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The very thinnest crevice in the curtain</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Slowly sheds the light across the room</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm static in the shower as she gradually devours</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And my ribcage forms a temporary tomb</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She makes a mockery of everything I've previously enjoyed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On the fraying navy carpet I am strewn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At four a.m. in a Travelodge in Chippenham destroyed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And all I've got's this sad and lonesome tune;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All I've got's this sad and lonesome tune</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She's the very first and final maiden</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To make her absence seem like such a chore</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With this longing I am laden;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just wanna see her pretty face once more</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And if I make a call it will be torture</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm protecting this projection of my pride</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For the softest sweetest voice would make me crumble</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As conversation carries on beside</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She makes a mockery of everything I've previously enjoyed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On the fraying navy carpet I am strewn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At four a.m. in a Travelodge in Chippenham destroyed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And all I've got's this sad and lonesome tune;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All I've got's this sad and lonesome tune</span><br />
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-66426146167878638222011-09-29T22:41:00.000+01:002018-10-04T15:34:00.962+01:00Broadway Circle<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mister Harris isn't happy; barged in through the door</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His face incensed with fury and the odour of a skunk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His breath resembled sour milk and spit flew as he swore</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He came in here on Wednesday last, his favourite trousers shrunk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I find the nearest notebook and I log down his complaint</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But far from satisfactory, he's suing our Launderette</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If he edges any closer, I'm certain that I'll faint</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And how much bloody duller can my day get?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I long for any life, but Broadway Circle<br />And I'll go and join a circus or a library or a church</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And it's hardly worth the living when I'm leaving here upset</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And how much bloody duller, can this day get?<br />Yeah I long for any life, but Broadway Circle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And foolishly I've fantasised on many afternoons<br />With Jim inside my headphones and a thousand mile stare<br />Convince myself at closing time the end is coming soon<br />Convince myself that anybody cares<br />Yeah, you've mispronounced my name-tag although you're getting near<br />And one day you might manage just to call me by my name<br />That's right, Mister Harris; it's not "moron", it's "Maria"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yeah, I long for any life but Broadway Circle<br />And I'll go and join a circus or a library or a church<br />And it's hardly worth the payment 'cause I'll always be in debt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And how much bloody duller, can this day get?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yeah I long for any life, but Broadway Circle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I make my way home and I sigh and I recline</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I stop off at the Co-Op and buy myself some cheap wine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I stroke my dog and put my slippers on my feet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And suddenly my day is rather sweet...</span><br />
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-5671344362948608932011-09-27T15:06:00.000+01:002018-10-04T15:34:00.613+01:00When Saturday Comes<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There’s no rational explanation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The lads can do no wrong</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bound by love and dedication</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is where we all belong</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I don’t need a rhyme or reason</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To spend my weekly wage</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’ve followed them every season</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since seven years of age</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And this game changes you forever</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Life reduced to crumbs</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There’s no doubting my endeavour</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When Saturday Comes, we come alive</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When Saturday Comes, at two fifty-nine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The floodlit sky provides direction</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For those away from home</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As one man ponders his selection</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One man’s left to roam</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And the pubs are awash with coloured clothes</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not a square inch going spare</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then they exit in their droves </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Excitement fills the air</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And he might earn more in a summer </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Than I earn in my life</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He’s got a hot tub and a Hummer</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And Miss World for his wife</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But when he scored that left-foot screamer</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Became the golden son</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He joined the drinkers and the dreamers</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When Saturday Comes, we come alive </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When Saturday Comes, at two fifty-nine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I don't need a rhyme or reason</span></div>
<div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To spend my weekly wage</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’ve followed them every season</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since seven years of age</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And it’ll change your way forever</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your life reduced to crumbs</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And there’s no doubting my endeavour</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When Saturday Comes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When Saturday Comes</span><br />
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-13671700187198893062011-08-30T22:26:00.000+01:002018-10-04T15:33:59.523+01:00Plessey Road<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There’s a smudged stain of your make-up</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And a faint view of the Princes Dock</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A hair-clip on the table</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That points towards the impatient clock</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And you crept as they served breakfast</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Left me blissfully unaware</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The night we had was reckless</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I slept without a care</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And as you head down Plessey Road<br />I struggle to come to terms</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But those thirteen hours beside you, girl</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Really served to reaffirm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I choke on pleasant small-talk<br />In this meaningless façade<br />Yes sir, no sir, when sir, why;<br />Keep hiding behind your guard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When you come to speak<br />As rare as it's revealing<br />Few things could beat<br />That old familiar feeling<br />And I'd write for a week<br />And never once could capture<br />When you come to speak<br />The way that you enrapture</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The way you drape across the chair</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As the str</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">eet-lights spring to life</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No Mademoiselle from Armentières</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No mere mortal's wife</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You're like the finest statue</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With a purple plastic hear</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">t</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Translucent your antennae<br />And destined from the start</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And as you lay there on the bed<br />Unbuttoning my jeans<br />I have to keep you in my life<br />By each and every means<br />And one day, you'll find Plessey Road<br />And in the plant pot by the plaque<br />You'll tuck away your key, kiss your mother on the cheek<br />And never once go back</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When you come to speak</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As rare as it's revealing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Few things could beat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That old familiar feeling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I'd write for a week</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And never once could capture</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When you come to speak</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The way that you enrapture</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-31597367959918116682011-05-26T23:14:00.000+01:002018-10-04T15:33:59.883+01:00Bridge Street<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At dawn rise, she starts to drift off to sleep</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A secret sworn as he's creeping down her mother's stairs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No hiding the stride of a billionaire</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And at nine; maybe half-past or ten</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The simple choice of two men;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Her boyfriend or her lover</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On Sunday evening she'll discover the blues</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She'll have to choose fairly soon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On one hand she'll stop and swoon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But comfort can't be shifted</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Although it's colder since she drifted away</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Her days have long since been ruled</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She can't help feeling a fool</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But that familiar haze</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since he first held her, with his gaze...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And the rain that falls d</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">oes nothing to dampen the mood at all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She hides in a hole on Bridge Street, ju</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">st waiting for him to call</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And the way he takes t</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he greatest care on her coffee breaks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can change someone's way for the rest of the day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With something simple and small</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The X17 into town tries </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it's best to slow down</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The meeting of two hearts;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This afternoon his train departed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She's started taking with her hair</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's several months since she cared</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Or spared a second's thought</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She ties it back so they won't get caught</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And he taught her not to doubt on her dreams</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's never quite as it seems</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But now her fear encroaches;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She holds her breath, as he approaches...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And the rain that falls d</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">oes nothing to dampen the mood at all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She hides in a hole on Bridge Street, j</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ust waiting for him to call</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And the way he takes t</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he greatest care on her coffee breaks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You can change someone's way for the rest of the day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With something simple and small</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She never set an agenda</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Never thought that he would surrender</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On that sunny sandy beach in the summer in Spain</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Never thought this would happen again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And it's been at least 48 hours</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And everything he says, she happily devours...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And then it's back to the lies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And living the life that they both despise</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And the rain that falls d</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">oes nothing to dampen the mood at all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That wonderful escape on Bridge Street</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And now she's back to missing his calls...</span><br />
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-29058706489798361832011-03-28T22:34:00.000+01:002018-10-04T15:33:59.745+01:00Lucifer's Cardigan<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sometimes it's not so much the fear of being rejected<br />But the fear of being accepted<br />That's left me rather stuck<br />And I'm looking for distractions whilst you're looking at the floor<br />And I'm happy just to settle for a draw</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And you might not notice how I start again<br />Two words out of ten, and end-up looking suspect<br />As you muse on muddled words I lie there gazing at the table<br />I'm willing but unable<br />To find another subject</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And it feels like I am standing at the top<br />Of a diving board with a hundred metre drop<br />Or twelve yards out with the ball placed on the spot<br />But forty thousand whistles make me stop</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I'm wearing Lucifer's cardigan as you kiss me at the door<br />You tell me that you love me, and my feet raise off the floor<br />Then the harshness of reality leaves me wanting more<br />There's another awkward silence as I settle for a draw</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And it feels like I am standing at the top</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Of a diving board with a hundred metre drop</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Or twelve yards out with the ball placed on the spot</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But forty thousand whistles make me stop</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I'm wearing Lucifer's cardigan as you kiss me at the door</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You tell me that you love me, and my feet raise off the floor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Then the harshness of reality leaves me wanting more</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There's another awkward silence as I settle for a draw</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Well he's really quite good lucking, mum; he</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">'s awfully polite</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In fact, I think he might...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No I doubt he ever will do, dear</span><br />
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-31749061894463974462010-12-01T17:24:00.008+00:002018-10-04T15:33:59.988+01:00Hogmanay Heroes<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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And we’ll show you a good time if it’s carnage that you want</div>
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It’s a lairy night before you if you are a Dublin debutante</div>
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If you stick right by my side, we will take you for a ride</div>
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No time for questions now, it’s Hogmanay and this is how</div>
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Young lad Gavin Doherty’s gone missing on the bridge</div>
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We’ve eleven jars of liquor left and that’s just in the fridge</div>
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Passion’s in the eyes, and our Rosa says she feels it going wild</div>
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Let’s go wild</div>
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As we take another swig from the glasses in our hands</div>
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It’s complete obliteration, that’s exactly what we planned for you</div>
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That’s another failure through, there’s only one thing left to do</div>
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Come on, come on, yeah, oh, yeah</div>
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Tonight we’re gonna have a party</div>
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And everybody’s gonna come along</div>
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Yeah, tonight we’re gonna party</div>
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And wonder where that year has gone</div>
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Paul McGahan is the man</div>
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With the greatest plan of action</div>
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Shut the door, hit the floor, don’t let daylight be distraction</div>
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Light another cigarette, don’t just be a silhouette</div>
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Everything’s for taking, yeah, it simply hasn’t happened yet</div>
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Let’s go into the city as we delve into disgrace</div>
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We can dance like Brian Kelly when we find another place</div>
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Don’t waste time in holding back, now’s the time to lose it</div>
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Go wild, let’s go wild</div>
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And let’s get lost in time as they’re counting down the clock</div>
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They’ll since Auld Lang Sine as we dance around the Dock</div>
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Let common sense ignore us, there’s a whole New Year before us</div>
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Come on, come on, yeah, oh, yeah</div>
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Tonight we’re gonna have a party</div>
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And everybody’s gonna come along</div>
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Yeah, tonight we’re gonna party</div>
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And wonder where that year has gone</div>
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Tonight we’re gonna have a party</div>
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And everybody’s gonna come along</div>
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Yeah, tonight we’re gonna party</div>
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And wonder where that year has gone</div>
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And that’s another year that we’re throwing to the past</div>
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And it seems I’ve blinked ‘cause it’s going by so fast</div>
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I will show you what you want, my midnight Mademoiselle</div>
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Hogmanay’s upon and we’re gonna raise some hell </div>
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Twelve o’clock approaching as the drinks go down</div>
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I will hold you up till there’s no-one else around</div>
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Passion’s in the eyes and I can feel it going wild</div>
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Let’s go wild, let’s go wild</div>
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Tonight we’re gonna have a party</div>
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And everybody’s gonna come along</div>
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Yeah, tonight we’re gonna party</div>
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And wonder where that year has gone</div>
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Tonight we’re gonna have a party</div>
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And everybody’s gonna come along</div>
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Yeah, tonight we’re gonna party</div>
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And wonder where that year has gone</div>
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-82616798073805680892010-11-03T19:32:00.007+00:002018-10-04T15:34:01.586+01:00The Lonely Hearts of England<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Approval and affection, well they force you to perform<br />When you look at your reflection, does it make you feel warm?<br />Or does something hold you back, until someone holds you tight<br />Someone for a life-time, or maybe just a night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I’ve tried and failed many times, I’ve rarely won<br />But I am a chatty bugger, yes I am my mother’s son<br />So I’ll try and find my finest shirt and show ‘em what I can<br />I’ve got various ambitions as an independent man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Does it make you start to question, is it better left unsaid?<br />With the power of suggestion there’s a stranger in your bed<br />Does it meet your expectation, does it ever guarantee?<br />Will the lonely hearts of England stand and raise a glass with me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With the girls all wearing dresses, and the fellas wearing shoes<br />Everything excessive, and everything to lose<br />When the bells ring out for two o’clock, it’s the measure of your night<br />You’ll either end-up frisky or you’ll end-up in a fight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Are you standing with your sweetheart, are you looking for a match?<br />Do you tell yourself in silence that you really are a catch?<br />When you step outside for a cigarette and you try to make her laugh<br />And then treat her to the doubles with the last of the overdraft<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just get another round in, we’re wasting precious time<br />No celibates, we’re celebrating living in our prime<br />Do you often sit and wonder, what happiness might be?<br />Will the lonely hearts of England stand and raise a glass with me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Old Father Time with his stacks of coins is propping-up the bar<br />He’s seen all kinds of faces, but he’s never been that far<br />He’s fragile and he’s bony, with skin as thin as silk<br />But he’d drink a pint of whiskey like you’d drink a pint of milk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When your song came on the jukebox, and you had to stand and jive<br />And it’s nine o’clock on a Friday night when you really come alive<br />Just lose your inhibitions, and forget about the truth<br />‘cause the one thing that you can’t get back is the freedom of your youth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And by twelve o’clock tomorrow, I doubt that we’ll recall<br />When the truth comes out and you start to shout and there’s nothing past these walls<br />And they’re snoozing by the telly if they choose to disagree<br />Will the lonely hearts of England stand and raise a glass with me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Have you spotted someone sexy, are you trying to catch their eye?<br />It’s a bloody expensive taxi if you stand around all shy<br />With a little introduction and a little bit of charm<br />You’ve a belly filled with butterflies and someone on your arm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’ve told you many times before and I’ll tell you many more<br />You’re my greatest friend in the bloody world, and that is something sure<br />And I know I’ve never met you, but you’re such a bloody star<br />So let’s gather our possessions and we’ll find another bar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If it’s sunny or it’s snowing, it’s a ritual for life<br />If you’re looking for a girlfriend or you’re hiding from your wife<br />If you’re drinking on your pension, if you’re young and fancy free<br />Will the lonely hearts of England stand and raise a glass with me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Will the lonely hearts of England stand and raise a glass with me<br />Will the lonely hearts of England stand and raise a glass with me</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-69837943302305738672010-10-15T19:28:00.003+01:002018-10-04T15:34:01.031+01:00All The Rest Is Propaganda<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tender words between us<br />From morning through to night<br />Holding hands but sat alone<br />Stumbling over what to write<br />You casually commented<br />And led me to believe<br />That after all you’re longing<br />For the heart that’s on my sleeve<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I never did do big and bold<br />Perhaps it’s for the better<br />Shouting loud, standing<br />Well that doesn’t always get her<br />And I’m weary of the fact<br />That emotions can confuse<br />Reality or romance<br />The beauty or the blues<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And if you wanna shout then shout, like you’ve never done before<br />And if you wanna kiss then kiss me, like you’ve never done before<br />And if you wanna run let’s run right through that open door<br />And if you wanna shout then shout, like you’ve never done before<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We stroll along the precinct<br />You ask me where we’re going<br />I haven’t got the faintest clue<br />And I’ve no intent of knowing<br />But if our fingertips entwine<br />And neither stops to check the time<br />Full-on focus, fancy free<br />It couldn’t grow much more for me, oh yeah<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And if you wanna shout then shout, like you’ve never done before<br />And if you wanna kiss then kiss me, like you’ve never done before<br />And if you wanna run let’s run right through that open door<br />And if you wanna shout then shout, like you’ve never done before<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I seldom speak, but silence stifles<br />When you speak, a thousand rifles<br />Punctuating whilst I’m waiting<br />The highlight of my week<br />And with that lip that I’ve been biting<br />Without that fear that I’ve been fighting<br />The whole entire world will stop, and<br />And I’m inviting, yeah<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">And if you wanna shout then shout, like you’ve never done before<br />And if you wanna kiss then kiss me, like you’ve never done before<br />And if you wanna run let’s run right through that open door<br />And if you wanna shout then, then do it like you’ve never done before</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-79526606891906966792010-07-26T13:52:00.001+01:002018-10-04T15:34:01.447+01:0043 Degrees<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The sun sets on the evening, she's squinting in the light</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Her heart is set on leaving, we're welcoming the night</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She ties her hair up slowly with sadness in her eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"I'm sick to death of England, rainy summer skies"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I place my arm around her and wave away a frown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Tonight I'm gonna take you out, we're tearing-up the town"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No need for flights or 43 Degrees</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We don't have sandy beaches but it's gonna be a breeze</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We're heading on a mission, her friends have come to meet her</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Loosen inhibitions with another Margarita</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Balearic beats within us and we're heading for the bars</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You're never gonna stop us now, the weekend's come, its ours</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">'cause Friday night, and Saturday night, every night</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All we want to do is get high, all we want to do is get high</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All we want to do is get high, all we want to do</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All we want to do is get high, all we want to do is get high</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All we want to do is get high, all we want to do</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And the feeling is ecstatic, her troubles are beneath her</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Through the ceiling, through the attic, to the soundtrack of Ibiza</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've never seen her move so much, you should have seen her</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The weekend takes her out of touch, nothing comes between us</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I place my arm around her, she's got me on my knees</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Franco and Maria and it's 43 Degrees</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">'cause youth is standing on our side, we're never looking back</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another beat, another tide, another thrill, another track</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">'cause Friday night, and Saturday night, every night</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All we want to do is get high, all we want to do is get high</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All we want to do is get high, all we want to do</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All we want to do is get high, all we want to do is get high</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All we want to do is get high, all we want to do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Friday night, and Saturday night, every night<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-39229194794950268472009-08-18T12:28:00.001+01:002018-10-04T15:34:00.128+01:00Lowlife<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When there’s nothing left for death to take away<br />You strain yourself to struggle through the day<br />You have the gift of isolation<br />Starved from sight or conversation<br />You’re paralysed, you’ve never been so scared<br />In the depths of your mind, where mercy is spared<br />You’re searching for a reason to be sober<br />Never been dry since that week in October<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And you can’t find the comfort in conform<br />You just shudder, shelter from the norm<br />It’s all you know, oh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’m so sick of this, I’m so tired of this<br />I’m so sick of this lowlife, fuck right off with the same old bullshit<br />I’m so sick of this, I’m so tired of this<br />I’m so sick of this goddamn lowlife that I inhabit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When the only words she’s giving you are cold<br />The memories you cling to are desperately old<br />Reluctantly hiding in resistance<br />Find yourself questioning your existence<br />And all you want is something more<br />But you can’t unlock your bedroom door<br />And she’d sooner sleep alone than stay<br />When there’s nothing left for death to take away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Destruction has found its full throttle<br />You can’t see past the bottom of the bottle<br />It’s all you know, oh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’m so sick of this, I’m so tired of this<br />I’m so sick of this lowlife, fuck right off with the same old bullshit<br />I’m so sick of this, I’m so tired of this<br />I’m so sick of this goddamn lowlife that I inhabit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When there’s nothing left for death to take away<br />You strain yourself to drag from day to day<br />Eyes wide open, arms aloft<br />You scream at the world to fuck right off<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When you can’t unlock your bedroom door<br />And there’s nothing left worth fighting for<br />You’ll find that bottle, find that vein<br />The deeper you get, the sweeter the pain</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />And you’re far too scared the find the truth<br />You miss the blanket of your youth<br />When you wake in the morning, you can’t bear to face<br />The reflection before you, that fucking disgrace<br />You step outside but no-one’s there<br />You hide behind an icy stare<br />When you slip to the shadows and sink to the street<br />Hands in your pockets, eyes on your feet<br />And you’ve never got money, it’s pissed up the wall<br />You run from your family, too scared to call<br />When your girlfriend ignores you, she doesn’t exist<br />You carry a warning, constantly pissed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And there’s nothing left, it drags you further<br />There’s nothing left, it drags you further<br />There’s nothing left, it drags you further<br />There’s nothing left to fade away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And there’s no existence, you can’t resist<br />No existence, you can’t resist<br />There’s no existence, you can’t resist, oh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">There’s no existence, you can’t resist<br />No existence, you can’t resist<br />There’s no existence, you can’t resist, oh</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-35955557478954888592009-08-15T16:01:00.002+01:002018-10-04T15:34:00.058+01:00Fireworks<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That delicate way you take me to that distant place</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I never really told you because you never asked</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I never really notice until I’m left to chase</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’ve barely stopped to breathe and the moment’s passed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And that delicate way you break me, design my night and day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Devotion soon devours, anxiety would roam</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then I'm scrutinising sentences, every single word you say</span></div>
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And I’d kick myself for hours on the journey home</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Watching fireworks, through the window</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fireworks, as our love grows</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fireworks, through the window</span></div>
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Fireworks, watch our love grow</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The only way to love myself is spending time with you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The only way to love myself is spending time with you</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The only way to love myself is spending time with you</span></div>
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The only way to love myself is spending time with you</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So let’s not ruin this with words, the chat-up lines and charms</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">'cause nothing else feels quite as safe as lying in your arms</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This moment is for keeping, Lose everything we ever knew</span></div>
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And those sighs when you were sleeping, I know you feel the same way too</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm pining for a second of treasured interaction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A lifetime would be blissful but I'll settle for a fraction</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Watching fireworks, through the window</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fireworks, as our love grows</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fireworks, through the window</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">
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Fireworks, watch our love grow</div>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The only way to love myself is spending time with you</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The only way to love myself is spending time with you</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The only way to love myself is spending time with you</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">
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The only way to love myself is spending time with you</div>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Watching fireworks, through the window</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fireworks, as our love grows</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fireworks, through the window</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">
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Fireworks, watch our love grow</div>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Watching fireworks, through the window</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fireworks, as our love grows</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">
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Fireworks, through the window</div>
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Fireworks, watch our love grow</div>
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-7695390877794203852009-07-29T19:36:00.001+01:002018-10-04T15:34:01.239+01:00Maria, Full of Grace<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I saw the beauty in her eyes<br />And though I searched, I could not recognise a soul<br />Well she was blind from compromise<br />And as she talked, I recognised that time had taken toll<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And she would stop herself from smiling<br />But the bottle was beguiling<br />She’s satisfied in silence as she sits<br />And she’s satisfied with silence ‘cause it fits<br />Oh yeah, it fits<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I saw the sadness in her sighs<br />And as I watch, I know she tries to make amends<br />I’ve seen the days that she’ll despise, inconspicuous disguise<br />And time had taken toll on her wits<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And you would never hear her laughter<br />Here on in or ever after<br />She’s satisfied in silence as she sits<br />And she’s satisfied with silence ‘cause it fits<br />Oh yeah, it fits<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">‘cause when I saw my sweet Maria<br />She was lonesome and afraid<br />And through the night-time she was crying on the pillow as she said<br />And though she longs for me to free her<br />No more a mistress than a maid<br />She would stop herself from trying<br />‘cause she was lonesome and afraid<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I saw the weakness in her words<br />And though she’d speak, I never heard it from her heart<br />And they were often quite absurd, it’s just the way that she preferred<br />As time had slowly taken her apart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And she would stop herself from speaking<br />Of the freedom she was seeking<br />She’s satisfied in silence as she sits<br />And she’s satisfied with silence ‘cause it fits<br />Oh yeah, it fits<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I saw the darkness in her days<br />And she would spend her time just gazing at the wall<br />And her friends would say it’s just a phase, and plod-along with old clichès<br />As time had taken toll<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I saw the curtains were concealing<br />She was certain of the feeling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She’s terrified in silence as she sits<br />But she’s satisfied with silence ‘cause it fits<br />Oh yeah, it fits<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">‘cause when I saw my sweet Maria<br />She was lonesome and afraid<br />And through the night-time she was crying on the pillow as she said<br />And though she longs for me to free her<br />No more a mistress than a maid<br />She would stop herself from trying<br />‘cause she was lonesome and afraid</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-59125647168836973262009-05-22T12:32:00.002+01:002018-10-04T15:34:00.684+01:00That Week In October<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That week in October was sullen and dark</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There's a sorry recluse and it's by Regent's Park</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In a Georgian Hotel, not exactly exquisite</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm drowning my sorrows for the length of my visit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wake in the morning to my greatest of fears</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The shade of my cheeks was from vodka and tears</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I stand by the sink but I can't bear to face</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The reflection before me, that fucking disgrace</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I pause for a minute and perch on the bed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fight back the vomit and cradle my head</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cuss at myself before pulling together</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And stepping outside to the welcoming weather</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Baker Street station is bustling and busy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The dash for the train leaves me nauseous and dizzy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The journey itself is a silent affair</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I strive to avoid the compulsory stare</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I drink to the thought that the day's nearly over</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">11am and I'm no longer sober</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I cling to your neck as I moisten my lips</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I've made it my choice 'cause I can't get to grips</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Silently slumping, the others outside</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My forehead is thumping , I swallow my pride</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The haze that descends is a keen substitution</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But it proves at the end an unworthy solution</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By late afternoon it has come to a close</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The stench of the drink makes sure everyone knows</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The onlookers wince as I shudder and swig</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm soon well aware of the whole that I dig</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A far cry from pleasant, I wouldn't advise it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A nasty old bastard, but everyone buys it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That week in October was sullen and dark</span></div>
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-42920477243598841362008-04-18T12:22:00.002+01:002018-10-04T15:34:00.336+01:00Did It All Go To Plan?<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I saw your picture yesterday<br />Is that a true reflection?<br />I’ve seen you slowly grow, and all the things that you tried to be<br />It seems so long since you portrayed<br />That image of perfection<br />Well at least that’s how they painted you for everyone to see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It looked like what you wanted and it felt like it was right<br />It felt like you were right at home as you slipped out of sight<br />Does it have to be like this?<br />Do it really have to be like this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well did it all go to plan?<br />Did it all go to plan?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I found a picture yesterday<br />It must be ten years old<br />Completely unaware of what was lying just around the bend<br />Rich in life, and words to say<br />You started to unfold<br />And you unravelled as you travelled, and it never seemed to end<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It looked like what you wanted and it felt like it was right<br />It felt like you were right at home as you slipped out of sight<br />Does it have to be like this?<br />Do it really have to be like this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well did it all go to plan?<br />Did it all go to plan?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">And I miss times when you would laugh, that twinkle in your eye would brighten-up my day<br />Yeah I miss the times when you would laugh, I wish that things were different every single day<br />And I miss times when you would laugh, that twinkle in your eye would brighten-up my day<br />Yeah I miss the times when you would laugh, I wish that things were different every single day</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-76630516560424046732008-04-18T12:19:00.003+01:002018-10-04T15:34:01.101+01:00Maybe You Are After All?<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And as a drop in your ocean I’m drowned by the notion<br />That I simply cease to exist<br />And I doubt that you’ll respond but I’ve grown rather fond<br />And so with my pen I persist<br />I don’t know where to start, from the head or the heart?<br />Or maybe from further below?<br />I’m ignoring the pain, this is written in vain<br />I’m smitten but you’ll, but you’ll never know, oh-oh-oh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh<br />I’m smitten but you’ll never know<br />Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yeah, I’m smitten but you’ll never know<br />And does admitting it soften the blow<br />Yeah, I’m smitten but you’ll never know<br />But fuck it, I’ll give it a go, oh-oh<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And you may well protest at the hairs on my chest<br />The texture that you feel when we kiss<br />You’re taking second best, to stay in the nest<br />Not expecting that you’d fall for this<br />Oh, and there’s no-one to choose, there’s nothing to lose<br />At least you’d have something to show<br />So just swallow your pain, this is written in vain<br />You’re smitten but you’ll, but you’ll never know, oh-oh-oh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh<br />You’re smitten but you’ll never know<br />Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Yeah, I’m smitten but you’ll never know<br />And does admitting it soften the blow<br />Yeah, I’m smitten but you’ll never know<br />But fuck it, I’ll give it a go, oh-oh</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-63857304985742879482008-02-17T17:56:00.003+00:002018-10-04T15:34:00.753+01:00Failing To See The Attraction<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now you walk through the door and you brighten-up the place</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I'm trying to ignore him with that grimace on my face</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And with his look of satisfaction and his arm around your waist</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And every single action that I'm desperate to replace</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now I’m not trying to tell ya that I’m special or sublime</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But every time I see him it sends shudders down my spine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And well it might just be a feeling and I guess I'll never know</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tonight it hits the ceiling and I might just let it show</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">'cause you're a very special kinda person</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And you've got me with every single one of your moves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And it might just make this problem worsen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But I guess I've got something to prove, something to prove</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I'm failing to see the attraction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yeah I'm failing to see the attraction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I see you gravitate towards, is my mind just playing tricks?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You come up and ask a simple question and I hit you back with six</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And we get lost in conversation, then he comes and wins you back</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With understated irritation, I feel an instinct to attack</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">‘cause I can see that he is worthless and he’s only in it for the sex</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And when you look beneath the surface there’s nothing more than you’d expect</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He just likes to chase 'em now and then, a with a bit of luck</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If I never see his face again, it wouldn’t be so tough</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">'cause you're a very special kinda person</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And you've got me with every single one of your moves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And it might just make this problem worsen</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But I guess I've got something to prove, something to prove</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I'm failing, to see the attraction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yeah I'm failing, to see the attraction</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I'm failing, to see the attraction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yeah I'm failing, to see the attraction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I'm failing, to see the attraction</span></div>
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-76788280704426051032008-01-21T16:56:00.003+00:002018-10-04T15:34:01.169+01:00Voluntary Confinement<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As Sunday morning smells of toast are drifting through the nation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My senses have diminished and my body's drained of sleep</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When littered pathways are my host and I'm weak with desperation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now everything has finished and I am left</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All alone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And twenty-seven miles for a night-out on the tiles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The benefit of hindsight is a wonderful perspective</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And walking's not my style, so I stumble for a while</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I'm squinting in the light amidst my alcoholic haze</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With God's help I will over-come this terrible affliction</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I'd shout for what it's worth, but there's no-one else around</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I'm certain that I'll conquer and escape from this addiction</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But at this moment in time, I'm the only man on earth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm the only man on earth</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As people eat their Sunday roast, I stumble-in through the back door</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My senses have diminished and my body's craving sleep</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When littered pathways are no more and sleep is just around the corner</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now everything has finished and I am left</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All alone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Twenty-seven miles for a night-out on the tiles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The benefit of hindsight is a wonderful perspective, I'm reflective</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And talking's not my style, so I mumble for a while</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And days drift into night amidst my alcoholic haze</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With God's help I will over-come this terrible affliction</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I'd shout for what it's worth, but there's no-one else around</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I'm certain that I'll conquer and escape from this addiction</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But at this moment in time, I'm the only man on earth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm the only man on earth</span></div>
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-79599773175215577302008-01-17T18:12:00.003+00:002018-10-04T15:34:01.516+01:00You Probably Don't Even Realise When You Do The Things I Love The Most<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I haven't seen you for a while</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since just before you went away</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But then I often see you smile</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As my mind begins to stray</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I haven't really dreamt of you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since you fell right out of sight</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But then again, you've kept me wide awake</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Through every single night</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And you're probably unaware of just how much really I care</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But then again I never told you, although I meant to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Because I do...</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And you probably don't even realise when you do the things I love the most</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yeah, you probably don't even realise when you do the things I love the most </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yeah, it's the simple things I miss</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And even as you’re hearing this</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I bet you wonder what I meant by that</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As I compile a second list</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of such gentle insignificance, subconsciously sublime</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And my heart is growing fonder</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's getting longer every time</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And you're probably unaware of just how much really I care</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But then again I never told you, although I meant to</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Because I do...</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And you probably don't even realise when you do the things I love the most</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yeah, you probably don't even realise when you do the things I love the most</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And you probably don't even realise when you do the things I love the most</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yeah, you probably don't even realise when you do the things I love the most</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I love the way you hold my hand and softly stroke my finger</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The way you laugh beneath your breath when I call myself a singer</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The way you always listen when I've got something to say</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I often see a smile</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As your mind begins to stray...</span></div>
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-29292631598093893822007-12-27T18:21:00.004+00:002018-10-04T15:33:59.814+01:00A Few Quiet Drinks<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">A few quiet drinks with the music and the laughter<br />It's festive and warm on a cold winter's night<br />Last orders at midnight, we'll stay 'til just after<br />And then make our way home, when we've been for a bite<br /><br />I turned-off my phone as we sat in the corner<br />And it soon slips my mind as the evening progresses<br />My girlfriend's at home, but I chose not to warn her<br />I'm sure she won't mind all these girls in these dresses<br /><br />A few quiet drinks, nothing more, nothing less<br />A few quiet drinks, oh with my friends...<br /><br />The drink seems to work, and I'm starting to dance<br />There's a fine-looking blonde with a fine-looking smile<br />My mates go berserk when I turn-down the chance<br />She knows I'm quite fond, and she's known for a while<br /><br />Now it's not very big, and it's not very clever<br />As the alcohol sinks to my stomach with a powerful force<br />The lads go outside, leaving us two together<br />There's no need to think; nature soon takes its course<br /><br />A few quiet drinks, nothing more, nothing less<br />A few quiet drinks, oh with my friends...<br /><br />And I wake-up in the morning and cradle my head<br />Oh there's feelings of sickness, feelings of dread<br />I wait for the phone call to settle my fate<br />Oh, I'll beg for forgiveness; too little, too late<br />'Cause you're the most valuable thing, that I've got<br />Just a few quiet drinks, nothing more, nothing less<br />But it cost, it cost me everything<br /><br />A few quiet drinks with the music and the laughter<br />It's festive and warm on a cold winter's night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-86504897633472510052007-12-27T18:18:00.003+00:002018-10-04T15:34:01.656+01:00This Song Is Definitely Not About You<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Instinctively inconsiderate, intent on having fun</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Conveniently covering-up, all the selfish you've done</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You leave guidelines on the sidelines and ignore your inhibitions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And the golden rule to live by, is beg forgiveness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not permission</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And you stand above the rest but do you stand the test of time?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And do friendships have expiry dates, a month into their prime? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This song is not about you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's definitely not about you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This song is not about you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's definitely not about you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's got fuck all to do with you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Some place to be, some face to see, you never seem to linger</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You keep the people closest to you, wrapped around your little finger</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You've got charismatic qualities, of that there is no doubt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And everybody's easily impressed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But your dominative tendencies, they don't stand above the rest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And do random acts of kindness help to clear a guilty conscience?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Or am I wrong in thinking that you even have a conscience?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This song is not about you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's definitely not about you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This song is not about you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's definitely not about you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's got fuck all to do with you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And does friendship take the sidelines when it's served it's only purpose?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Left loitering behind you, success has deemed it surplus</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Standing in the corner, hanging on to every word</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And humiliation settles-in when the laughter's heard</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When the laughter's overheard</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This song is not about you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's definitely not about you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This song is not about you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's definitely not about you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's got fuck all to do with you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's got fuck all to do with you</span></div>
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-66019052950253290662007-12-27T18:01:00.003+00:002018-10-04T15:34:00.893+01:00Let's Get Lost<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">I see you sat amongst your friends<br />The silence says it all<br />Your loneliness is captured by the drab and empty walls<br />Yeah, I've seen the way you listen with that glazed and hollow look<br />I see you slowly shed a tear and leave it there to dry<br />The golden thoughts of yesteryear that slowly seem to die<br />I'm saddened by the notion that we're drifting through these days<br />And the state of my emotion is reflected in your gaze<br /><br />So hand-in-hand let's walk away, let's find another world<br />Nothing planned, no more to say, our happiness unfurled<br /><br />Major highs, manic lows<br />Mixing drinks to soothe the blows<br />Yeah this is where the evening goes when we're getting lost<br />Loved-up weekends, lazy days<br />Dreams escape the drunken haze<br />It's different feelings, different ways, of getting lost<br /><br />So there's nothing planned, no more to say, nothing left to hide<br />You place your hand in mine, we lie resting side by side<br />And I see a smile start to slowly spread across your face<br />And the residues of sadness disappear without a trace<br />Dreams of feelings, dreams of days, nothing seems to matter<br />The kind of dreams that never fade; never seem to shatter<br />The kind of place where people live their lives without a care<br />With nothing left to lose, we're left with everything to share<br /><br />So hand-in-hand let's walk away, let's find another world<br />Nothing planned, no more to say, our happiness unfurled<br /><br />Major highs, manic lows<br />Mixing drinks to soothe the blows<br />Yeah this is where the evening goes when we're getting lost<br />Loved-up weekends, lazy days<br />Dreams escape the drunken haze<br />It's different feelings, different ways, of getting lost, yeah<br /><br />Major highs, manic lows<br />Mixing drinks to soothe the blows<br />Yeah this is where the evening goes when we're getting lost<br />Loved-up weekends, lazy days<br />Dreams escape the drunken haze<br />It's different feelings, different ways, of getting lost<br />So let's get lost<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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@MattAbbottPoethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12400834864108532511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003952255800483473.post-44409331544292481142007-11-17T18:24:00.002+00:002018-10-04T15:34:00.474+01:00The Long Night That Lies Ahead<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And once again you've found me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the only way that you can</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You've swallowed all my thoughts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And now you're drowning all my senses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And you gradually surround me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As I dance beside McGahan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In this pyrotechnic paradise</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You're perfectly relentless</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You're simply irresistible</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I answer every one of your calls</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's momentary madness, but I'm aware of this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I'm a man on a mission</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You grab my hair without a care</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And we thrust against a wall, and another wall</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And with animal exuberance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We release all inhibitions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And it's the long night that lies ahead</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">An hour's gone, and now it's started</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's far too long since you departed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's the long night that lies ahead</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And you've left me broken and empty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And so depressed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Instinctively inseparable</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm enthralled within you, and your existence</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You lead me down to a darkened room</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And we kiss</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Increasingly irreparable</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm in awe even though you're destroying me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For as long as I can remember</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've never felt like this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And it's the long night that lies ahead</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">An hour's gone, and now it's started</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's far too long since you departed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's the long night that lies ahead</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And you've left me broken and empty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And so depressed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And the room is cold and far too bright</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I'm slowly drifting through the night</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Constantly awaken by the aching in my chest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I stare up at the empty ceiling, body starts to drain of feeling</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But somehow that's much better than it was before</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wish my mind would do the same</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Instead it's screaming out her name:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I simply can't forget her, the woman I adore</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And there's not much more of this that I can take</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm far too scared to simply stay awake</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I'm deafened by the sound of nothing whatsoever</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Feeling null, and void, and petrified, and paranoid</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For as long as I can remember</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've never felt like this</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I never want to feel like this again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And it's the long night that lies ahead</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">An hour's gone, and now it's started</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's far too long since you departed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's the long night that lies ahead</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And you've left me broken and empty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And so depressed</span></div>
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