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Introduction

The 1st time I saw you

I did try hard to burn my eyes

Life was but a sad dream

I was but a sad breath

  But you were something like sand

When sunlight hits the sea

The 2nd time I saw you

I was about to take the road

I asked would you wait for me

You said life ain't a highway

  Better if we'd been born

As siamese songbirds

The 3rd time I saw you

We went to the zoo

All steady hot beers, sorrowful monkeys

  Big eyes laughing

With I had not held hands

The 4th time I saw you

It was like I was gonna die

  I was waiting outside

You just had a new guy

  Asked me why, I, I

  Son, son, son

won't you come along? ||||||

We have no time for another ||||||

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song, song, song ||||3|

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Won't you sing along?

We have no sea, child

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The 5th time I saw you

He was traveling abroad

And your eyes, they were not here

You just made new friends

  While I tried to stop with cigarrettes

The 6th time I saw you

I was properly insane

For the whisky I had drunk

The drugs I'd taken

  Gimme one way and you will realise

The 7th time I saw you

You were married again

If I had just once kissed you

Things wouldn't be the same

  Surely the sky'd be different

The 8th time I saw you

I was strummin' the guitar

& your ear were just for him

My ears were a-bleeding

  The waiter was blind

Please someone blind my eyes!

The last time I saw you

It was about six a.m.

You approached me in a strange car

Finally kissed me

  Then did wave goodbye

Before you disappear

Sometimes I ache, babe

Or I ain't hard enough to stand

But the days they just drown me

Coming back from work

  Having sour breakfast

  Seasick from your chest.