"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)