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If I made it through Christmas without smoking |
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'Til your parents went to bed |
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If you made it through too |
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Without sticking your nail scissors in my neck |
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I'll buy you bras instead of pickled eggs |
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Chocolate instead of chutney |
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Good red wine instead of bad red wine |
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Next time I remember your birthday |
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I ate peaches straight from the can |
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The juice ran down my tongue |
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Over my lip |
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Slipped down my chin |
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Dripped onto your parents' carpet |
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The air in here is dead |
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But we're not finished yet |
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Throw the back door open |
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Let me see your breath |
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I love you like a madman |
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I miss you all the time |
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I wait for the morning |
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I will wait all night |
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I mixed rum and coke and lemonade |
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Asked for my presents in the kitchen |
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Alone again at 3am |
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I listened to them |
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With sugar round the rim and ash around the edges |
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Of the tiles and the tables |
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You didn't sit up waiting |
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But somehow slept sober |