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    The dream of love is over, today we said goodbye,
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    we parted not in anger though tears came in her eyes.
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    'Twas just as fate decreed, dear, that we should never wed,
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    yet in her heart she loved me, she married wealth instead.

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One little word could've changed my future life,
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one little word could've made her my wife.
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Too late, too late, now my fondest hopes are dead,
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one little word, that word was never said.

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    Since schooldays we had been sweethearts,
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    she was her father's pride,
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    her folks lived in a mansion, our cottage by its side.
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    Though years have brought their changes, the same old love tale told,
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    she wed to please her parents a man of wealth and gold.

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One little word could've changed my future life,
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one little word could've made her my wife.
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Too late, too late, now my fondest hopes are dead,
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one little word, that word was never said.