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Aww, we were so much in love |
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She was all I thought of |
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But she met someone |
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who said, 'I love you, hon' |
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It was too late |
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He left her the cradle |
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The shame and the blame |
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A child with no name |
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No name! |
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In the spring we were gonna be married (gonna be married!) |
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She was my world everything in my life |
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But she ran and hid from the wrong that she'd done |
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In a dark back street slum |
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Back street! |
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Her own folks disowned her |
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Back street! |
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Her friends all scorned her |
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Back street! Back street girl! |
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Lying scared and alone |
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Back street! |
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she met all the wrong kind |
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Back street! |
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the ghetto's poisoned her young mind. |
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Eighteen years old |
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And the room gotten cold |
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She sings lullabies |
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As a small baby cries |
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Scorned and alone |
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She missed her friends |
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and her mom and her dad |
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The good home she had (The good home she had!) |
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She had to fight to survive (fight to survive!) |
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Give up her pride to keep her baby alive |
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So she sold her love to those who would call |
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Up the stairs down the hall |
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Back street! |
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She felt the good in her dying |
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Back street! |
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She grew bitter from crying |
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Back street! Back street girl! |
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Lying scared and alone |
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Back street! |
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Ya, 'n what it did to her (?) |
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Back street! |
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She lived like a rat in a sewer |
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A knock in the night |
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no one in sight |
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There at my feet |
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in the snow cold and deep cried |
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Her small baby son |
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tear stained the note |
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that she left on my door |
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'Love, please make him yours.' |
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somewhere she walks the night |
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wrapped in dreams now never to be |
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yesterday we held the world in our hands |
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world apart now we stand |
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Back street! |
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it was dawn when they found her |
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Back street! |
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I place some flowers around her |
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Back street! Back street girl! |
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I never felt so alone |
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Back street! |
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As I stand here above her |
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Back street! |
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I know deep inside I still love her |
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Oh I think of those good times (Back street livin aint easy!) |
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When we laughed in the sunshine (Back street livin aint easy!) |
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All those plans that we made then (Back street livin aint easy!) |
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Life was so good then... (Back street livin aint easy!) |
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She will forever be deep in the heart and the soul of me |
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Back street! |
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If I'd only forgave her |
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Back street! |
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My love could have saved her |
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Back street! Back street girl! |
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She was scared and alone |
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So hard living on the backstreet! |
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Back street livin aint easy! |
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Back street girl! Ooh! |
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(background singers denoted by!) |
