She had light eyes and a velvet dress
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Next to her mother and the family around
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She poses a bit distracted in the soft sun at the end of the day
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The photo isn't good but you can see
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Happiness in person and the softness of an evening
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She loved music, especially Schumann and then Mozart
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Like you, like you, like you
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Like you, like you, like you
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Like you I watch quietly
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Like you who sleeps dreaming of what
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Like you, like you, like you
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She went to school in the village below
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She learned the books, she learned the laws
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She sang about frogs and princesses sleeping in the woods
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She loved her doll, she loved her friends
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Especially Ruth and Ana and especially Jeremy
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And they'd marry one day, maybe in Warsaw
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Like you, like you, like you
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Like you, like you, like you
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Like you I watch quietly
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Like you who sleeps dreaming of what
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Like you, like you, like you
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Her name was Sarah, she wasn't 8 years old
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Her life was sweetness, dreams and white clouds
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But other people had decided otherwise
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She had your light eyes and she was your age
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She was a quiet, very well-behaved little girl
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But she wasn't born, like you, here and now
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Like you, like you, like you
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Like you, like you, like you
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Like you I watch quietly
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Like you who sleeps dreaming of what
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Like you, like you, like you
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Like you, like you, like you