Such a Small Love - Scott Walker
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Mist falls and his voice cracks from the morning
Flowers and my body feels like lead
Someone should have stopped the birds from singing today
Hammers from striking nails into clay
Her face penetrates the blue gray morning
Her eyes pregnant pools produce a tear
Someone should have shouted you had gone in her ear
That summer was stolen away
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Such a small love, such a little tear
You would laugh so loud if you could see us here
With my one suit badly pressed and worn
Like a child left in the world alone
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He speaks I don't hear a word he's saying
Hang on to the pine trees and the snow
Reach out grab the memories that are left for your hand
They'll help you get by for a while
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Such a small love, such a little tear
Is this all that's left on your cheek so pale?
His shallow half lit eyes, his rotted teeth groan on
Our drunken madmen nights ending up in jail
Midnight mornings drenched in Dago red*
Words collided, things we left unsaid
Perfumed pillows, girls that clung so near
Such a small love, such a little tear
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