That tune that haunts me day and night
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That tune wasn't born today
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It comes from as far back as I do
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Dragged along by a hundred thousand musicians
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One day that tune will drive me crazy
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A hundred times I've wanted to say why
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But it cut me off
It always speaks before me
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And its voice covers my voice
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It comes running up behind me
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It pulls the remember-this trick on me
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It's a tune that points its finger at me
And I drag it along with me
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That tune that knows it all by heart
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It says, Remember your loves
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Remember, since it's your turn now
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So you don't cry
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With your memories in your arms
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And I see again those who remain
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My twenty years beat like a drum
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I see gestures fighting each other
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The whole comedy of love
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To that tune that goes on and on
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Some July 14th 'I love you's
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Stacks of 'will you's in bundles
And all that just to fall
Right at the street corner
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On the tune that recognized me
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Listen to the racket it's making at me
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As if all my past were marching by
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Gotta save some sorrow for later
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I've got a whole solfège of it on this beating tune
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That beats like a wooden heart