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[Verse 1]
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I remember when you were only seventeen
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You were the finest girl that my eyes had ever seen
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I guess you found it hard to simply just ignore
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This scruffy beat up working class teenage troubadour
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So we fell in love and I toured your heart with my out of tune guitar
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You were wonderful you were mystical and the envy of all of my friends
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Seems like only yesterday under the stars on Brighton Beach

[Verse 2]
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Oh what a time it was what a time to be alive
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Remember Janice and Jimi, Kennedy and King, how we cried
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I sang to you the songs of Ramblin' Jack
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You were Greta Garbo and I was Kerouac
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And we played so hard and we loved so hard seemed we never ever slept
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They were crazy days they were wonderful days and I loved you with all of my
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heart
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Seems like only yesterday under the stars on Brighton Beach

[Bridge]
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Your daddy had plans that did not include me
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And he warned stay away from your door
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And I dreamed how I dreamed I could steal you away
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To some far off distant shore

[Verse 3]
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Then early one morning I awoke to find you gone
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You wrote 'I love you baby but it's time for me to move on'
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And so my teenage heart laid scattered on the floor
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I swear to God I could not have loved you anymore
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And as I sit here tonight playing with my kids wondering
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Where you are in this world
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Did you find your man are you happy now do you ever stop and think about me
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How I long for yesterday under the stars on Brighton Beach