She’s Leaving Home

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Wednesday morning at five o’clock as the day begins
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Silently closing her bedroom door
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Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
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She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching her hankerchief
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Quietly turning the backdoor key
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Stepping outside she is free

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She (We gave her most of our lives)
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Is leaving (Sacraficed most of our lives)
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Home (We gave her everything money could buy)
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She’s leaving home after living alone
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For so many- years (Bye bye)

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Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
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Picks up the letter that’s lying there
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Standing alone at the top of the stairs
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She breaks down and cries to her husband
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“Daddy our baby’s gone
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Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly?
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How could she do this to me?”

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She (We never thought of ourselves)
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Is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves)
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Home (We struggled hard all our lives to get by)
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She’s leaving home after living alone
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For so many- years (Bye bye)

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Friday morning at nine o’clock she is far away
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Waiting to keep the appointment she made
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Meeting a man from the motor trade

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She (What did we do that was wrong)
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Is having (We didn’t know it was wrong)
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Fun (Fun is the one thing that money can’t buy)
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Something inside that was always denied
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For so many- years (Bye bye)

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She’s leaving home
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Bye bye