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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Said I'd walk to San Francisco
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After everything was done
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Thought the noise and moving busy
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Kept my mind from really knowing what was gone
[Verse 2]
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When I finally saw it closing
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All those miles across the bay
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I was only standing closer to
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The man I hoped to lose along the way
[Chorus]
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But If I'm being honest
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But If I'm being honest
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I would tell him that
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It's a picture book
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It's a hospital gown
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It's an aspen tree in the summer breeze
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She saw, as waving hands
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It's a watching chair
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And a holy company
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Like a sailing ship
Hard rot in it
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That will never again float upon the sea
[Verse 3]
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Well I found that there's a humor
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In an old and fond goodbye
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As if the early passing was a door
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That she could look through with a smile
[Chorus]
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So If I'm being honest
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If I'm being honest
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I would tell her
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It's a pair of jeans
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It's a rude awakening
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It's a fine life lived in the privilege of standing there in the afterlight
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It's a photograph
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Folded in my wallet
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To remind myself that what she left
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Is only growing bigger over time