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Well once I knew a railway girl

Her age was seventeen

I gave her all I had to give

But the baggage of my dreams

Stole me from the games we played

Scorned me for my mast

And if she's gone she lingers on

I beg you please don't ask

T'was on her dark March evening

Southbound I did ride

My head was out the window

When I found her at my side

Asked where I was going to

I told but where I came

For the jails in which I've done my time

I fail hard to regain

Dark girl, dark girl it kills me so

To watch you so afraid

You know that you've been real to those

When realness should be feigned

Her eyes gone wide, "Alive," she cried

Does pleasure ever last?

We live to see, but patiently

I beg you please don't ask

She took me in despite my sins

Fed me tea and such

And as she fell just like a child

I crumbled 'neath her touch

I held my breath in fear to weep

For the fragments of my brain

See each day's but a moment that

I fail hard to regain

But as it goes the people it throws

Our values to the street

Whole world came and saint's gaze

Impatience in his feet

And captives of this paltry trade

We curse our mortal past

Forgive us though we all must go

And where to please don't ask

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And now I am a misspent man

Who knows not where he's been

And though so sapped with suffering

The worst is yet unseen

Renounce myself for further wealth

I take each breath in vain

Still haunted by that railway girl

I fail hard to regain

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