On a terrace somewhere in France in the sun
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Sits a man who until yesterday never won
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But his car flew off a nearby bend
Without him, without Herman
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'Cause he'd just sold it
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Herman in the sun on a terrace
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Reads in the AD that he was no longer alive
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His car was completely burned out
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And the man who'd bought it
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Was listed under his name in the paper
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It seems like it's raining, as always
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And it's raining sunbeams
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A week ago in a park in Amsterdam
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He'd surveyed his life and was scared stiff
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He was a man whose life was already set in stone
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And of all his boyhood dreams
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He'd only managed to get old
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It seems like it's raining, as always
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And it's raining sunbeams
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On a park bench, the decision was made
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Call it brave, call it escape
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"But I'm getting out of here"
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That was a week ago
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And here he was again
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With more freedom than he knew what to do with
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And now he just didn't know anymore
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Herman reads the paper like a hundred times
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It's really there, page eighteen, black-bordered
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He used to keep all his opinions
And all his dreams to himself
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Now he was nothing, nobody, nowhere anymore
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So he can go wherever he wants
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Herman pays his tab and gets up
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He finally has his purpose back
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"I've gotten a second chance"
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"And that's more than I deserve"
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"But if this is it, this is it"
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"If this is, this is it"
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"If this is, this is it"
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"And we'll just have to see"
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It seems like it's raining, as always
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And it's raining sunbeams
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It seems like it's raining, as always
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And it's raining sunbeams
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It's raining sunbeams