She’s Leaving Home

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Wednesday morning at five 
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o'clock as the day begins
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Silently closing her bedroom door
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Leaving the note that she hoped 
would say more
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She goes downstairs to the kitchen
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 clutching a handkerchief
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Quietly turning the backdoor key 
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stepping outside she is free
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She "We gave her most of our lives".
 Is leaving "sacrificed most of our 
lives"
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Home  "We gave her everything money 
could buy"
Continues after the ad
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She is leaving home after living 
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alone for so many years
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Father snores as his wife gets 
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into her dressing gown
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Picks up the letter that's lying 
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there. Standing alone at the top of 
the stairs
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She breaks down and cries to her 
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husband Daddy our baby's gone
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Why would she treat us so 
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thoughtlessly  how could she do this
B7
 to me
E
She "We never thought of ourselves".
 Is leaving  "never a thought for 
ourselves"
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Home  "We struggled hard all our 
lives to get by"
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She's leaving home after living 
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alone for so many years
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Friday morning at nine o'clock
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 she is far away
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Waiting to keep the appointment 
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she made meeting a man from the 
motor trade
E
She  "What did we do that was 
wrong". Is having  "We didn't know 
it was wrong"
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Fun  "Fun is the one thing that 
money can't buy"
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Something inside that was always 
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denied for so many years
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She's leaving home   bye bye