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Verse 1CBbFC
Baby, baby brush the dust of youth from off your shoulder
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Because the years of threading daisies lie behind you now
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Don't return to fields of green where rainbow secrets were told
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Place your ragged doll with all the toys and paints and beads
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I will show you gain where the winner never wins
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Let your hair hang down
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Wear the dress your Mother wore
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Let me sleep beside you
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Verse 2CBbFC
Lock away your childhood and throw away the key
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For now the streets and city sounds will burn your eyes as coals
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You shall drink the oldest wine and velvet skies will linger
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Child, you're a woman now your heart and soul are free
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I will hold a lighted lamp and we shall walk together
Bridge
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Your darkened eyes close free but your lips are void of mystery
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You could not imagine that it could happen this way...could you
Horns
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I will give you dreams and I'll tell you things you'd like to hear
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Let your hair hang down
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Wear the dress your Mother wore
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Let me sleep beside you
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Let me sleep beside you