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[00:14.04]There was a pretty girl
[00:17.08]From some small suburb of Dallas
[00:20.87]And she came up to New York with a dream
[00:27.13]In the confusion and the noise
[00:30.51]All of her beauty and her poise
[00:34.15]Turned grey like snow beside the city street
[00:41.06]She met a boy named Steven
[00:44.04]They made love in his apartment
[00:47.96]In a second story walk up out in Queens
[00:54.47]And the things she hoped to find
[00:57.67]Beneath him on that August night
[01:01.50]Was the farthest thing from her
[01:04.23]As she dressed to leave
[01:07.91]So she hides her eyes
[01:13.41]Says a slow goodbye
[01:18.11]Swears by the morning light she'll be fine
[01:25.44]At a wedding in Connecticut
[01:29.17]The mother of the bride
[01:32.44]They dreams about her husband who just past
[01:39.11]As stands to give her toast
[01:41.93]She says the only thing i know
[01:45.67]Is when you find a love thats worth it
[01:49.06]Make it last
[01:53.05]So she chokes back the tears
[01:55.67]And speaks of all her daughters years
[01:59.12]Thirty christmas' of memories that she keeps
[02:05.99]And the speech was silent sweet
[02:09.26]She kisses guests as they all leave
[02:13.30]Then heads of to her hotel room to eat
[02:19.61]So she bides her time
[02:25.17]And says a slow goodbye
[02:29.81]Swears by the morning light she'll be fine
[02:37.37]Yeah she hides her eyes
[02:42.38]Though its hard some nights
[02:47.28]She'll take her own sweet time and she'll be fine
[03:21.80]A welder who spent twenty years
[03:25.33]Working in an auto plant
[03:28.30]Gets late off on a thursday afternoon
[03:34.85]And he grips the fourty-five
[03:38.09]Thats rests in the glove box when he drives
[03:41.91]Then puts the gun away and wonders what to do
[03:49.14]So he parks in his driveway
[03:52.12]And head against the steering wheel
[03:55.55]And tries to think what to tell his wife
[04:02.43]And in the kitchen he explains
[04:05.75]And swears they'll be okay
[04:08.89]She says you're the only i need in this life
[04:15.69]So he bides his time
[04:21.09]And says a slow goodbye
[04:25.84]Swears by the morning light he'll be fine
[04:32.84]Yeah she hides his eyes
[04:38.25]Though its hard some nights
[04:43.44]He'll take his own sweet time and he'll be fine