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Emm...good evening... |
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Or should I say good morning? |
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The time is twenty-five to five |
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And I've been sitting here for some time now, |
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Actually I |
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After a party which I quite enjoyed, but you know it |
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One has one reservations when one has quite enjoyed oneself, |
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But one has to make reservations because, uh, |
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The people were particularly interesting. |
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In fact, there weren't as many people there as I expected there to be, |
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It was, I thought...you know, |
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The Maynard-Mitchells have a big big do |
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In fact there weren't nearly as many as one might have thought, |
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Which was, which was a pity. |
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In fact, I think I must have drunk rather a lot |
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(Or although it seemed so at the time I felt myself quite sober) |
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But when I leapt into the car to drive home |
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After my merry abandon |
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I found the task extremely difficult! |
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And it was extremely fortunate |
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That, um, there was nothing else on the road because, looking back at it, |
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I seem to remember I had a mental brainstorm |
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(Well, I didn't realise at the time) |
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And I think I drove the whole way home on the righthand side of the road! |
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Which is something of course which comes from driving in France too much, |
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Which is what I've been doing recently, |
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As you probably know, driving in France, you know. |
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And in moments of stress such as was this journey home, |
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One forgets so easily- the lies, the truth and the pain. |
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And so I'm wavering from the point |
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What I was trying to say...is uhm, |
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When I sat here I had an extremely pleasant time on the piano, actually |
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I was playing the piano and sort of singing, |
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And I rather fear I might have kept people awake upstairs |
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One hopes not, but it was pleasant, and it's extremely pleasant sitting here now, |
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Because I think there is something extraordinarily nice |
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About seeing the dawn up before one goes to bed, |
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Because there's something uncanny about it |
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When it suddenly becomes light, because one connects darkness with going to bed, |
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Surely... um, and when one is still up when it becomes light, |
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And it's a new day, and you still haven't gone to bed to sleep |
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(Because the night equals sleep, so easily) |
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And when one is still up when the new day begins |
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It is something of an intriguing experience, I always find. |
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I can look out of the window now, and that tree over there is green, |
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Whereas before one goes to bed, |
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Just when one goes to bed, that tree should be black, surely! |
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Everything should be black before one goes to bed, |
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But that is surely the essence of the Romantic! |
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Anyway, I think I'm straying from the point. |
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I should probably stop talking now |
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Because, um, if I don't I shall start sort of relating on life histories and things, |
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Which will be frightfully tedious. |
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So it's here that I'll sort of say goodnight, you know... |
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Goodnight! |
