1982

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Operator please connect me with nineteen eighty two
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I need to make apologies for what I ___ didn't do
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I sure do need to tell her that I've thought the whole thing through
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And now it's clear that she is what I should have held on to

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They say hind sights twenty, twenty
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But I'm nearly going blind
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>From staring at her photograph
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And wishing she was mine
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It's that same ole lost love story
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It's sad, but it's true
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There was a time when she was mine
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In nineteen eighty two
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Postman can you sell me a special kind of stamp
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One to send a letter from this crazy, lonely man
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Back into the wasted years of my living past
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I need to tell her now I know how long my love will last
repeat chorus:
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Losing my mind going back in time
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Two nineteen eighty two