[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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The war was over, I was living with my folks
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I yelled upstairs, "hey ma', I'm off to grab some smokes"
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And my father called, "why you need to smoke so late?"
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Well I lied, I had a date
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Free from my folk's enslavement
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Skippin' along the pavement
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To see a brunette who I never met
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But I never would forget how she looked in that dress
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How she stuck out her hand and said, "My name is Cecily Smith
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And I hope you like music
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'Cause I've got two tickets for La Traviata"
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That's when I said "I hate opera"
[Chorus]
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She laughed and said "well lucky for you that you're with Cecily Smith-
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who cares what you are listening to, it's who you're listening with
[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
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So we take our seats her hands were folded in her lap
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if not a kiss then I at least will get a nap
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So I close my eyes as the ochestra begins
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Then I hear violins
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and the hair on my neck was rising
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A feeling new and surprising
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But it wasn't the sound that made my heart pound
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No, it was because I found her hand is in mine
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and that's where it will stay until they play the final chord
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She says, "were you bored?"
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And I say, "I guess it wasn't quite so bad it was the best time that I've ever had."
[Chorus]
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She laughed and said, "well lucky for you I got seats to Beethoven's fifth
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who cares what you are listening to, it's who you're listening with"
[Interlude]
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A per- fect wife
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A per- fect life
[Verse 3]
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The time exploded like a bullet from a gun
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A week, a year and then a marriage and a son
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and a rental where I still can hear her laugh
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When I play the phonograph
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So I let the music guide me
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As Cecily sits beside me
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A girl of nineteen with a nervous marine
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Feel her head begin to lean
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As the melody soars
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And though it was real it doesn't feel like it could be
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That night when you said to me
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That "I've got two tickets for La Traviata"
[Chorus]
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It's sad but true how much I miss you, I miss you Cecily Smith
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Life is not the things that we do it's who we're doing them with
[Outro]
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