Key: A
Introduction:
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Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins
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Silently closing her bedroom door
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Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
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She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching a handkerchief
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Quietly turning the backdoor key
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Stepping outside she is free
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She (we gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (sacrificed most of our lives)
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Home (We gave her everything money could buy)
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She is leaving home after living alone for so many years
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Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown,
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Picks up the letter that's lying there.
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Standing alone at the top of the stairs,
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She breaks down and cries to her husband Daddy our baby's gone.
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Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly?
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How could she do this to me?
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She (we never thought of ourselves)
Is leaving (never a thought for ourselves)
E/D
Home (we struggled hard all our lives to get by)
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She's leaving home after living alone for so many years
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Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away
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Waiting to keep the appointment she made
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Meeting a man from the motor trade
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She (what did we do that was wrong?)
Is having (we didn't know it was wrong)
E/D
Fun (fun is the one thing that money can't buy)
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Something inside that was always denied for so many years
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She's leaving home bye bye