Night Of The Fourth Of May

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Ah the days they flew by and the leaves fell from the trees
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And many times you came around and many times you slept with me
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And every time that we made love you wrote it down in your diary
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Lady of ladies

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But I would always say to you don't ask about tomorrow
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Give what you have take what you need, your time is only now
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Don't try to tie me down to promises
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Live for today, today is all there is
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And freedom seems to be everything to me

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I took you down to a party on the night of the fourth of May
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And a strange and growing restlessness had hung in the air all day
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The need to try and tear down and destroy all that we made
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Lady of ladies

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You whispered in my ear and asked me if I fancied her
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you told me that he'd phoned you when I was in America
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daring each other just to say okay
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swap for tonight didn't I always say
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that freedom seems to be everything to me
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And she came and she sat down beside me
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and you found an excuse to go downstairs
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and she smiled and made the kind of conversation that you do
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and later on she said my last train has gone
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oh I wonder if you would take me home
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and I found you in the hallway
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and told you that was all that I would do
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just run her home and it’s through
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oh I thought that you knew
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but I must confess, I laid my head on her breast
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and it seemed so hard to pull it away
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her hand touched my hand and her eyes were offering the rest
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if it wasn't for you oh I would have stayed
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but I came back home through the morning to find you lying awake
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and I knew all at once what you'd done and I heard myself say

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(1 Down stroke per beat)
why did you have to sleep with him anyone else wouldn't have mattered half as much as him

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I don’t want to touch you somehow you feel unclean
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I just wish that you were five hundred miles away from me
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Don't talk at all, don't start to cry just pick up your things
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Lady of ladies
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And though I'd always told myself that when our time ended
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I'd walk away with no regrets and no attempts to stay
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Somehow it doesn't seem to be that way
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I find I'm needing every word you say
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This freedom seems to be everything to me
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And you went up to Cambridge and you stayed in your brother's room
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And you wrote me a letter and sent it the same afternoon
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You said I just want to hurt myself. Oh I need you so badly now
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And you told me without you there seems to be no horizon at all
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Just no crack in the wall, no place lower to fall
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"Hey don't leave me, don't leave me, the shapelessness of the dawn
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Floods above and beneath me, I just can't go on
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And I had to walk right into the trap, and I had to say please come back
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Though I felt all the while my resistance slipping away

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(1 Down stroke per beat)
Why did I have to fall for you anyone else wouldn't have hurt me half as much as you