Intro
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Verse
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She was softer than moonlight in her cinnamon hair
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and her eyes always doting on me
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and when I was a young man, oh I’d hold her right here
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There was nothing more precious to me
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I can still feel her essence, I can still taste her kiss
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though my senses have long ago waned
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It's the cruelest of thievery, that’s reduced me to this
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And left my mind, begging her name
Chorus
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And my memory is fading, like the names on a grave
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of lovers, from yesterdays gone
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and I'm sitting here broken, with an ache in my heart
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and the name of my darlin', on the tip of my tongue.
Break
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She was proud, she was fierce, She was laughter and tears
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she was all that ever I'd need
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she was right and I was wrong and then she was gone
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left me alone here to bleed.
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And I hear that she married; raised up a son
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but for me it just weren't in the plans
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and I can' t think of anything I might have done
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to avoid or deserve where I am
Chorus
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And my memory is fading, like the names on a grave
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of lovers, from yesterdays gone
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and I'm sitting here broken, with an ache in my heart
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and the name of my darlin', on the tip of my tongue.
Break
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Bridge
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And if life is the memories we've made
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does it end once they've withered away?
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On a good day I'm back there, in the sun and the sand
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care free and carry'n on
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Ah, but mostly I sit here, with a blank empty stare
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conscious of all that is gone
Chorus
Am F C G
And my memory is fading, like the names on a grave
Am F G G
of lovers, from yesterdays gone
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and I'm sitting here broken, with an ache in my heart
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and the name of my darlin', on the tip of my tongue.
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and a girl, who once loved me, on the tip of my, tongue.