Intro
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As a girl, I lived in a million homes
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So I always would keep to myself
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And my lessons were learned
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From the stories and poems
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I would steal from a library shelf
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Yes, the books like the Roots
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Weren't mine to keep
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But the words weren't left behind
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And I think of them all now when I can't sleep
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And a poet who read my mind
Verse 1
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As the wise men once wrote
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Never give all the heart
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Well, it's easy to see
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He was writing for me
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I just wish I could play that part
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Yes, he scribbled that love isn't worth thinking of
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That is fades out from kiss to kiss
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If I just learned those lines
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Well, just think of the misery I'd miss
Verse 2
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As the Irish men said
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Don't put your heart up to play
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When he warned of the cost
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And the heart that he lost
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Mister Yeats really paved the way
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For the men that I've known
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Who have clearly shown
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They've reading him from the start
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'Cause when it comes to me
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Well, their kisses come free
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But they never give all the heart
Verse 2
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When he warned of the cost
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And the heart that he lost
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Mister Yeats really paved the way
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For the men that I've known
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Who have clearly shown
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They've reading him from the start
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'Cause each time that I fall
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They never give all the heart
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