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 Well once I knew a railway girl

 Her age was seventeen

 I gave her all I had to give

 But the baggage of my dreams

Stole me from the games we played

Scorned me for my mast

 And if she's gone she lingers on

 I beg you please don't ask

 T'was on her dark March evening

Southbound I did ride

 My head was out the window

When I found her at my side

Asked where I was going to

 I told but where I came

 For the jails in which I've done my time

 I fail hard to regain

 Dark girl, dark girl it kills me so

 To watch you so afraid

 You know that you've been real to those

 When realness should be feigned

 Her eyes gone wide, "Alive," she cried

 Does pleasure ever last?

 We live to see, but patiently

 I beg you please don't ask

 She took me in despite my sins

Fed me tea and such

 And as she fell just like a child

 I crumbled 'neath her touch

 I held my breath in fear to weep

 For the fragments of my brain

 See each day's but a moment that

 I fail hard to regain

 But as it goes the people it throws

 Our values to the street

Whole world came and saint's gaze

 Impatience in his feet

 And captives of this paltry trade

 We curse our mortal past

 Forgive us though we all must go

 And where to please don't ask

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 And now I am a misspent man

 Who knows not where he's been

 And though so sapped with suffering

 The worst is yet unseen

 Renounce myself for further wealth

 I take each breath in vain

 Still haunted by that railway girl

 I fail hard to regain

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