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Got an old Smiths' record and I put it on endlessly
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To mourn a lethal fascination of a girl named Valerie
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She got a triple X rating and maybe someday she'd have married me
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But she was born to keep me waiting Her name was Valerie
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With a little more time I was thinking we could've worked
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my hooks into you
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Over a recent complication I came to find that she'd tired of me
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She wrote the book of Revelations Her name was Valerie
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With a little more time I was thinking
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we could've worked my life around you
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With a little more time
Whoooo!
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Her name was Valerie Valerie
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Her name was Valerie Valerie
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Her name was Valerie Valerie
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Her name was Valerie