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My love, she speaks like silence,  
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Without ideals or violence,  
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She doesn't have to say she's faithful,  
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Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.  
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People carry roses  
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And make promises by the hour,  
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My love, she laughs like the flowers  
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Valentines can't buy her.  

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The bridge at midnight trembles,   
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The country doctor rambles,  
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Bankers' nieces seek perfection,  
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Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring.  
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The wind howls like a hammer,  
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The night blows cold and rainy,  
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My love she's like some raven  
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At my window with a broken wing.  

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In the dime stores and bus stations,  
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People talk of situations,  
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Read books, repeat quotations,  
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Draw conclusions on the wall.  
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Some speak of the future,  
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My love she speaks softly,                                    
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She knows there's no success like failure  
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And that failure's no success at all.  

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Ahhh ahhh ahhh  

Em   G    A  
Ahhh ahhh ahhh  

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