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[Verse 1]
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Where in the world did you come from my dear?
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Did some mysterious voice tell you I'd still be here?
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I bought this ticket to Mobile, but I been stranded all day.
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p.a. said the bus broke down ten miles away from the station
[Chorus]
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So seldom a door...so seldom a key...
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so seldom a lock like the love between you and me.
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But seldom comes happiness without the pain
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of the devil in the details since I saw the smile on your
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face as I was crying in a Greyhound station on Christmas Day...in 1998
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face as I was crying in a Greyhound station on Christmas Day. Hey yay hey yeah
[Verse 2]
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The burden of love is the fuel of bad grammar
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You stutter and stammer--what a bitch to convey
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the crux of the matter, when the words you must utter
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are hopelessly tangled in the memories and scars you show no one.
[Chorus]
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So seldom a door...so seldom a key.
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so seldom a hit like the hurt you put on me
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But seldom comes happiness without the pain
Am D C
of the devil in the details since I saw the smile on your
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face as I was crying in a Greyhound station on Christmas Day...in 1998
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face as I was crying in a Greyhound station on Christmas Day. Hey yay hey yeah
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
D Am D Am
I remember quite clearly, a bad Muzak version
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of James Taylor's big hit, called "Fire and Rain"
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was playing as you crouched down and tearfully kissed me,
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and I thought, "Damn, what good fiction I will mold from this terrible pain."
[Chorus]
Am D C D
So seldom a door...so seldom a key.
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so seldom a gift like the gift you gave me.
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But seldom comes happiness without the pain
Am D C
of the devil in the details since I saw the smile on your
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face as I was crying in a Greyhound station on Christmas Day...yay yay yay yeah
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face as I was crying in a Greyhound station on Christmas Day...yay yay yay yeah
[Outro]
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Amazing grace, how sweet the smile upon the face I never thought
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on Christmas Day...in 1998...in 1998...Christmas Day
