A Wedding In Connecticut

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There was a pretty girl 
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from some small suburb of Dallas 
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and she came up to New York with a dream 


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In the confusion and the noise 
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all of her beauty and her poise 
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turned grey like snow beside the city street 


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she met a boy named Steven 
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they made love in his apartment 
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in a second story walk up out in Queens 


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and the things she hoped to find 
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beneath him on that August night 
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was the farthest thing from her 
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as she dressed to leave 
  
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so she hides her eyes 
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says a slow goodbye 
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swears by the morn-ing light, she'll be fine 


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at a wedding in Connecticut 
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the mother of the bride 
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day dreams about her husband who's just past 


            
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as she stands to give her toast 
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she says the only thing i know 
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is when you find a love thats worth it 
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make it last 


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so she chokes back the tears 
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and speaks of all her daughters years 
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thirty christmas' of memories that she keeps 


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and the speech was sad and sweet 
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she kisses guests as they all leave 
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then heads off to her hotel room to weep    


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so she bides  her time 
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and says a slow  goodbye 
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swears by the morn-ing light, she'll be fine 


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yeah she hides  her eyes 
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though its hard  some nights 
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she'll take her own   sweet time, she'll be fine 


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A welder who spent twenty years 
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working in an auto plant 
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gets laid off on a thursday afternoon 


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and he grips the fourty-five 
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that rests in the glove box when he drives 
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then puts the gun away and wonders what to do 


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so he parks in his driveway 
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and head against the steering wheel 
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and tries to think what to tell his wife 


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and in the kitchen, he explains 
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and swears they'll be okay 
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she says, you're the only thing i need in this life 


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so he bides his time 
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and says a slow goodbye 
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swears by the morn-ing light, he'll be fine 
            


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yes he hides  his eyes 
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though its hard some nights 
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he'll take his own sweet time, and he'll be fine 



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