You didn't love me from the start
Sometimes life can deceive your heart
The way I love you, darling
It's a crying shame
It happens every time
That I hear your name

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I have to hold back the tears
Hold back the tears
Hold back the tears
I have to hold back the tears
Hold back the tears
I have to hold back the tears
No one must know
How much I love you so

My friends treated me, oh, so nice
Sometimes you can take a fool's advice
Now my heart is all? with pain
It happens every time
That I hear your name

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Now my friends have
Turned their backs on me
They won't give me any sympathy

I tried to forget you
From week to week
The spirit was willing
But the flesh was weak

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