"LATE NIGHT, MAUDLIN STREET"
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Winter
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Winter push on
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winter push on
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(Winter was so long)
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The last night on Maudlin Street
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goodbye house, goodbye stairs
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I was born here and I was raised here and
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...I took some stick here
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love at first sight
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may sound trite
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but its true you know
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I could list the details
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of everything you ever wore
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or said, or how you stood that day
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as we spend the last night
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on Maudlin Street, I say
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"goodbye house-forever"
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I never stole a happy hour
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around here
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Where the world's ugliest boy
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became what you see, here I am
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--the ugliest man
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Oh, the last night on Maudlin Street
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truly I do love you
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oh, truly I do love you
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When I sleep with that picture of
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you framed beside my bed
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oh, its childish and its silly
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but I think its you in my room
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by the bed (...yes, I told you it was silly...)
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and I know
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I took strange pills
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but I never meant to hurt you
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oh, oh truly I love you
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I came home late one night
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everyone had gone to bed
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but you know, no-one stays up for you
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I had sixteen stitches
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all around my head
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the last bus I missed to Maudlin Street
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so, he drove me home in the Van
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complaining: "Women only like me for my mind..."
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dont leave your torch behind
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power-cuts ahead 1972
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and so we crept through the park
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no I cannot steal a pair of jeans
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off a clothesline for you
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but you...without clothes
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oh I could not keep a straight face
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me --without clothes?
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well a nation turns its back and gags...
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Im packed
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I am moving house
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a half-life disappears today
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every hag waves me on
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(secretly wishing me gone
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well, I will be soon
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oh --I will be soon)
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I will be soon
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I will be soon,
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oh I will be soon
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I will be soon, oh I will be soon
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I will be soon
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There were bad times on Maudlin Street
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when they took you away in a police car
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dear Inspector --dont you know?
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dont you care?
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dont you know --about Love?
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Your gran died
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and your mother died
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on Maudlin Street
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in pain and ashamed
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with never time to say
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those special things
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I took the keys from Maudlin Street
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well, its only bricks and mortar!
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oh, oh...truly I do love you
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wherever you are wherever you are
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whevever you are
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oh I hope you're singing now
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oh I do hope
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oh I hope you're singing now
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oh ...
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(Morrissey-Street)