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I was thinking of home as the bus pulled away |
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Take me to the |
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Cape and you knowing what |
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I had to do |
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And the sun it beat down all along the highway |
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As I thought about the day when |
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I told you |
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I would stay |
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I was trying just to find the words to tell you |
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That I had to go and leave it all behind |
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I had to go back to the land where |
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I had come from |
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I'd lost what |
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I came to find had to leave it all behind |
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And the lights of old |
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Boston still shine on you now |
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Where you'll be what they want you to be |
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Yeah the lights of old |
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Boston still shine on you now |
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And you know in your heart in your heart you must be free |
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Goodbye my girl don't you know |
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I hate to leave you |
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Goodbye my girl and |
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I hate to see you cry |
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Goodbye my girl don't you know |
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I hate to leave you |
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But it's better this way to say goodbye |
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You were smiling when you met me at the station |
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And I wondered if you'd cry when |
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I told you |
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I would die |
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If I had to stay one more week in this nation |
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It's the land of the free but not where |
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I want to be |
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And you asked me if |
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I loved you more than |
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Ireland And to tell the truth the answer it was no |
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Cause I just knew that |
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I could never make this my land |
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In the home of the brave |
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I would only find a grave |
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As I got aboard the plane my heart was breaking |
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As I left you there in pain with no words that could explain |
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Why I had to make to make the journey |
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I was making |
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Had to leave you alone but then how could you have known |
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All the things |
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I was feeling deep inside me |
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As I sat there |
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I wondered how |
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I could love a country more than |
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I could love you |
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As the plane took off and flew |
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I just knew that it was true |