The Passers-By

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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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I sing you a song that I offer
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To all the women you love for
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A moment, a brief secret time

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To those that you scarcely had met when
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A different destiny led them
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To places you can't even find

[Verse 2]
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To her that you saw for an instant
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Appear at her window quite distant
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Then suddenly vanish away

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Her slim silhouette a mere outline
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So gracefully faded for all time
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But filled you with joy come to stay

[Verse 3]
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To her on a train you were travelling
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Whose beautiful eyes left you marvelling
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And shortened the journey so much

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Perhaps you alone understood her
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You watched her get out: But you couldn't
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Even give her soft hand one light touch

[Verse 4]
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To women already bespoken
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Who find that their life's a mere token
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With someone that seems not to care

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They once, in a moment of madness
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Described the unbearable sadness
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When life holds our only despair

[Verse 5]
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The vision once glimpsed and idealised
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The shortest-lived hopes, never realised
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Remains in our minds just one day

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Whatever brief happiness takes you
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The memory will quickly forsake you
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Of those you once met on your way

[Verse 6]
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But feeling your life has been wasted
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You wish with regret that you'd tasted
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And known what these joys might have been

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The kisses you dared not discover
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The hearts that await you forever
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Those eyes and their glances unseen

[Verse 7]
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When weariness lengthens your evenings
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You people your solitude, grieving
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With phantoms your memory retains

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You mourn absent lips of these countless
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Fair passers-by briefly encountered
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You didn't know how to detain


[Outro]
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