Key: A
Introduction:
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The torch I carry is handsome
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It's worth it's heartache in ransome
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Now when that twilight steals
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I know how the lady in the harbor feels
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When I want rain, I get sunny weather
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I'm just as blue as the sky
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Since love is gone, can't pull myself together
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Guess I'll hang my tears out to dry
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Friends ask me out, but I tell them I'm busy
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Got to get a new alibi
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I stay at home, and ask myself "Where is she"
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Guess I'll hang my tears out to dry
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Dry little tear drops, my little tear drops
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Hang - ing on a stream of dreams
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Fly, little mem'ries, my little mem'ries
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Remind her of our crazy schemes
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Yes, somebody said "Just forget about her"
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So I gave that treatment a try
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And strangely enough, I got along without her
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Then one day she passed me right by oh, well
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I guess I'll hang my tears out to dry
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