What do you do when they turn on the light?
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You guard your heart, so they steal your sight
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You reach out in blindness, touch the alone
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Its icicle fingers chill you to the bone
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What do you do when the cat gets ya tongue?
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No way to tell it's all going wrong
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Mouth out the words on the telephone
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Nobody answers, nobody's home...
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What's done has been done, and I won't be the one
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Who despairs in the wheelchair, resigned to "If only"
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No, I'll stand up again and I'll run
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I'll jump up till I touch the sun
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Because I won't be the one to be bound
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By the sound of "If only, if only, if only"
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Well, I reach out in blindness now, but what do I care?
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I'll walk into walls and I'll stumble downstairs
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I'll laugh like a fishwife, I'll cry like a clown
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Up is the only way to go when you're down
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When I reach a mountain top, then I start to climb
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I'll walk on the water, I'll turn water to wine
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Hope is the one thing we got on our side
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Hope can be salvaged when all else has died
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What's done has been done, and I won't be the one
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Who despairs in the wheelchair, resigned to "If only"
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No, I'll stand up again and I'll run
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I'll jump up till I touch the sun
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Because I won't be the one to be bound
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By the sound of "If only, if only, if only"
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What's done has been done, and I won't be the one
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Who despairs in the wheelchair, resigned to "If only"
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No, I'll stand up again and I'll run
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I'll jump up till I touch the sun
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Because I won't be the one to be bound
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By the sound of "If only, if only, if only"
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If Only
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Hazel O'Connor |