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We've talked it to death, cryin' on the telephone. |
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Nights when he drinks at home, she has to whisper throught her tears. |
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"Johnny," she says, "you'd never do these things to me." |
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But I can never make her see he's wasted such precious years. |
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Well, "you married the wrong guy" is all I ever say. |
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He's a no good so and so, but she'll never let him go. |
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Though she knows it will never work, she loves the jerk. |
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She loves the jerk. |
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He was the guy always out on the make. |
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I guess he had what it takes to turn the heads of pretty girls. |
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She thought he would change; the worst of us will settle down. |
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But he couldn't stay out of town, not even with this precious pearl. |
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Now she lives with the lies and the bumps and the bruises. |
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Well, I hang up the phone and I pretend she's in my arms. |
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What I wouldn't give for just one-tenth of what she gives Mister Charming. |
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He's a no good so and so, but she'll never let him go. |
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Though she knows it will never work, she loves the jerk. |
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She loves the jerk. |
