The Manuscript

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C
Now and then
    G
She re-reads the manuscript
   G                   F
Of the entire torrid affair
C
They compared their licenses
   G
He said: I'm not a donor, but
    G
I'd give you my heart
       F
If you needed it
    C
She rolled her eyes and said
          G
"You're a professional"
         G                 F
He said: No, just a good samaritan
   C
He said that if the sex was half as
G
Good as the conversation was
G                       F
Soon they'd be pushin' strollers
            C       G
But soon it was over

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       C
In the age of him
                   G
She wished she was thirty
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         G
And made coffee every morning
     F
In a Frеnch press
C                             G
Afterwards she only atе kids' cereal
             G
And couldn't sleep unless it was
       F
In her mother's bed
C
Then she dated boys who were
    G
Her own age
     G
With dart boards on the
               F
Backs of their doors
    C
She thought about how he said since
    G
She was so wise beyond her years
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Everything had been above board
          C     G
She wasn't sure

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        G
And the years passed
     Am          F
Like scenes of a show
       G
The Professor said to
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Write what you know
        G
Lookin' backwards
      C
Might be the only
G           F
Way to move forward
         G
Then the actors
     Am            F
Were hitting their marks
        G
And the slow dance
     Am             F
Was alight with the sparks
        G
And the tears fell
   C          G           F
In synchronicity with the score
       G
And at last
         C           G           F
She knew what the agony had been for

    C
The only thing that's left
       G
Is the manuscript
         G
One last souvenir from my trip
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To your shores
C
Now and then
  G
I reread the manuscript
        G               F
But the story isn't mine

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