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                                                           It looks like love

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I fell in love with the love I thought you felt for me

We were young

We didn't even know the alphabet
We couldn't even    spell    LOVE

But I thought your thoughts were always about me

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I remember sitting at your grandma ' s house
hand in hand

Watching T V

We learned all about love there and then
I think

I loved the smell of the peanut butter
You wiped upon your dress

And the smell of the iodine when you skinned
Your knee

I loved the thought that I thought it good
That you thought of me

And together YES !

We learned our A  B  C 's !

And that

TWO AND TWO ARE THREE !

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I loved the thought that we would never separate

But I didn't know a thing about 1st grade!

You went into the big ole world and are lost to me

And my happiness is just a distant memory

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Now here alone I sit with my dog and cat

Sippin wine and waitin on my welfare check

I'm miserable / how could I let you slip away

Gotta go now / oh hell / where'd I leave my cane !

I 'd like to say I'm sorry / I take upon me all the blame

But alas / I really can't / remember your name

But alas / I really can't / remember your name