Tips Of My Fingers

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     I reached out my arms and I touched you.  With soft words
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     I whispered your name.  I held your love on the tips of my
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     fingers.  But that was as close as I came.  My eyes had a
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     vision of sweetness.  Yielding beneath my command.
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     I held you right on the tips of my fingers,  Yes I let you
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     slip right through my hands.  Yes I let you slip right
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     trough my hands.

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     Somebody took you when I wasn't looking,  I should have
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     known from the start.  It's a long long way from the tips
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     of my fingers to the love hidden deep in you heart.  To the
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     love hidden deep in my heart.

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     I held you love on the tips of my fingers,  But I let you
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     slip right through my hands.  I let you slip right through
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     my hands.  I held your love on the tips of my fingers.