Tom: C
Introdução:
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Let me tell you a story about a boy and a girl,
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A very different version than you've ever heard.
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Ok so I'm lying but all I'm trying to say,
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This isn't about the one that got away.
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Watch it from your ivory tower,
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Paint the sky grey, like a coward.
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(How long you got?) I can go for hours.
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A sweet little tale that ended sour,
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My words will ring in your ears.
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Take my advice and leave right now. You gotta find a way to sell yourself,
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To someone who cares, to someone desperate.
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Verse 2
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First came along my friends were dubious,
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She cared for the stage, not who she was with.
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I brushed it off and hit the road,
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Only to hear she's in the other's pose.
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It was the end of summer in 2009,
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I wasn't really looking but what did I find?
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A golden girl with golden hair,
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When I was with her everybody stared.
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And I couldn't believe my luck had changed.
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And I asked so nice but I wouldn't stay
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Take my advice and leave right now. You gotta find a way to sell yourself,
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To someone who cares, to someone desperate.
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Beggars can't be choosers, so I wouldn't choose you,
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I've got better things to do with my time
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I would bear in mind, what was in this line
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