She was reading a book that she'd already read,
Just to pass the time
He just sat there and stared at the TV set,
Like it was barely alive
And when the local news was over,
They would climb the stairs,
And crawl in bed underneath the covers,
Like neither one was there
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It's a long, long way,
Across the great divide
The songs that they once sang,
Now echo far and wide
They could still get back,
All the love that they have lost,
But only if they both will reach across
Cause its a long, long way to the other side,
Of the great divide
He wa sup in the attic on the fourth of July,
Cause they flew a flag in the yard
When he found some old roses she had long ago dried,
Before the drifted apart
And how the years has slipping right by them,
He didn't understand
He carried a petal into the kitchen,
And he placd it in her hand
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