You tell me nothing passes
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That one fine day it's a dead end
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That we always keep the trace
Of a love, of someone gone
Like yesterday straight ahead
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You tell me nothing helps
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That it'll take a whole life
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Keeping what must stay quiet
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And then act like before
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That I needed fear to be reassured
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That I knew pain before being comforted
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That I needed tears to hide nothing anymore
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That I'd known resentment long before being soothed
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You don't yet know what I know by heart
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Beautiful sorrow beautiful sorrow beautiful sorrow
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You tell me nothing erases
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That we learn after class
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Or after we're thirty
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We can say alas three times
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Those who leave for a long time
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You tell me winter's coming
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That we forget spring
That we empty the shelves
And fill them differently
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That we remember the green eyes
The laughter every moment
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That after all the voice gets lost
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But the words are alive
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I can only tell you
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I can only tell you
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That I needed fear to be reassured
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That I knew pain before being comforted
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That I needed tears to hide nothing anymore
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That I'd known resentment long before being soothed
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You don't yet know what I know by heart
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What I know by heart
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You tell me it's a trap
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A game for losers
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That the boat's made of cork
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That nothing protects you anymore
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To hide nothing anymore
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Long before being calmed
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I needed fear to be reassured
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And I knew pain before being comforted
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I needed tears to hide nothing anymore
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And I'd known resentment long before being soothed
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You don't yet know what I know by heart
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What I know by heart
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Beautiful sorrow beautiful sorrow beautiful sorrow