Woman in the wings
You said it would be romantic That moonlighting was the thing Eloping in a ten year old van Fixed with string And after all the packing Secrecy and fuss We never got past Watford And we had to come...
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I love to see you shuffle In your baggy pants I love I love to dance I could love you honey I could be yours for life I could love you honey If you didn't have a wife I love to see you shuffle In your...
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Lead heavenly catseye light Wind through lane and street It may be many a day Ere I come to the one I seek Neon beads that thread the night Reveal the road that dips from sight In the smooth sweep of...
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I've been in a long day dream Of scheme and fantasy My thoughts come back in words To mock me My flimsy boat I've set a sailing On dark and stormy seas Midst tempest wailing But while I've been away...
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Singing for supper round the world I've laughed in the afternoon I have danced after the pubs have closed By the bandstand under the moon I've been drunk and I've been sober I've been happy and I've...
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Rosettes are pinned on the wardrobe Certificates hang by the door It's horses and horses and horses again That's all she seems to live for Then comes the day She'll put them away Hide herself secretly...
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Come be merry, be my friend Come let me see the best side of you Come be merry, be my friend Come let me be good friends to you Gay as a goose in the gutter Merry as a mice in malt If we've got a...
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Oh, why do you laugh so loud? said the mother to her child. To stop myself from crying, the child replied. Then why do you cry all night? said the mother to her child. To stop my laughter waking you,...
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Clouds crush the setting sun The sky is darkening grey Restless whispering The summer's blown away Bleak deserted arbors That speak of absent friends God forsaken wasteland In time all friendship ends...
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She watches anxiously Helpless to protect The girl in the goldfish bowl of light The jigging marionette And the woman in the wings She worries when she sings out of key The dancer as she twirls...
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