Julia
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Verse 1
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Here's a song I sing for you about a girl that I once knew
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Julia
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She lived in a great big house with golden gates where servants bowed
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For Julia
Verse 2
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Unashamed I'd sit outside and wait for hours
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Hoping that she'd climb down from her ivory towers
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This beautiful girl as pretty as any flower had a hold on me
Chorus
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Upstairs in my lonely room I would dream of being cool
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With Julia
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I lived in obsessive bliss carefully planning my first kiss
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Off Julia
Verse 3
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One day I was feeling awfully brave and asked her
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If she'd like to come on a date, I just had to
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She bent down and gently kissed my face and said oh someday
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Oh my god how I loved this girl
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But no one ever said that love could burn
Chorus
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Waiting by the phone for days for a call that never came
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From Julia
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But love is cruel and has no wings but I still hear angels sing
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For my Julia
Verse 4
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I remember being overwhelmed by her prettiness
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If only she would look my way I might be in business
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To tell the truth she didn't even know I existed, Julia
Chorus
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Summer took her pretty clothes, winter came in grey and snow
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Oh Julia
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And I found out she'd moved away, her best friend said to the north country
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Julia
Verse 5
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Now all this happened many years ago my friend
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Regrettably there is no happy end, oh no
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She was 14, I was only 10, oh my Julia
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