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oh when we were seventeen |
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oh life was like a film |
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when we were seventeen |
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the sky was always tangerine |
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we ran through streets at night |
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under starlight |
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we ran through streets at night |
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when we were winning |
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oh wild was the world |
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and wild we burned |
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we were kings of the streets |
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not yet beaten by defeats |
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but now it's hard to see |
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through a fog of memories |
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but I remember |
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when we were winning |
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now my friends are unemployed |
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not needed in this world |
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pushed down by this town and always turned down |
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but in dreams at night |
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they can sometimes recall |
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when we were heroes |
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when we were winning |
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There was a girl that I loved |
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I have her photograph |
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It seems long ago |
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or was it yesterday? |
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She was a glimpse of life |
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a life that I missed |
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the chance I ever got |
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when we were winning |
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I thought I saw here today |
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thru a crowd in the street |
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I tried to run up to her |
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and my heart was beating fast |
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but she was already gone |
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she was lost in the crowd |
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but will I see her again |
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in the street or on a bus? |
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and can it be true |
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love never really dies |
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and is there still a chance |
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the fire never dies |
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I was out walking yesterday |
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I passed my old school |
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and I started to think back |
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to when I was a boy there |
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and all my classmates |
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they got real jobs now |
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but we are walking along |
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the same streets were I was born |
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what have we done to our lives? |
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we could've been anything |
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we gave it our love for what? |
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this is the time |
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and when I was growing up |
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my mom held a job |
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employed by the state |
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at the local school |
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she used to smell in her mouth |
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as she always used to sing |
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she let her hair down in spring |
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when we were winning |
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but she was worned out |
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she had to quit her job |
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and after 30 years of work |
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now shes got nothing |
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she says she hates her life |
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and her marriage has failed |
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but don't lay down and die |
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pleeease be alive |
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oh it's in the air at night |
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there's a wind coming in |
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the days dying |
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oh it's so beautiful |
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there's something happening somewhere |
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I take the bus in to town |
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all I see is laughing |
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and we are winning |
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soon I grow older |
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but god knows I haven't lived yet |
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before tonight's the memory |
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let's go out |
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I'm still young |
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ahhhhh aaaaahh aaaaaah aaaaaaah |
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aaaaahhh aaaaah aaaaaaaaaah |
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life doesn't wait |