All Of A Sudden

Oh, marianne
Please don't marry that insurance man

I just saw your picture in the paper
Surrounded by extensive wedding plans
Tell me this is just one of your capers
Say you haven't met with their demands

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Oh, marianne
Love talks cheap and faster than i can
Oh, marianne
Please don't marry that insurance man

I can't see you packing up his lunches
I can't see you diapering his son
You're the girl who always played her hunches
So how'd you figure out that this was one

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I'm not saying i grew up in love with you
I'm sayin', "why grow up at all?"

So tell that hoosier boy to put on clean socks
And the finest double-knits that he can wear
'cause when that invitation hits my mailbox
I'll see you at his funeral, my dear

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Well, lots of little pieces make up the little girl
Such a tiny thing in this great big world
Well, now i've got to find out what's crackin' up
My little buttercup
I got to take her to the doll hospital

Well i bought her a dollhouse and a corvette too
She's got everything's barbie's got, i'm tellin' you
But every time i make a move just to touch her hair
She says, "little boys should play with teddy bears"
I'm gonna take her to the doll hospital

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Uh-huh, oh yeah
Baby you'll be all right
I'm gonna take you
To the doll hospital tonight
Uh-huh, oh yeah
Baby you look a fright
I'm gonna take you to the doll hospital

Well, all in love is fair
But it's the wear and tear
And words left unspoken
That leave hearts broken
But i never tore your legs off
Or threw you on the floor
Now i know baby cries a lot
But please don't cry no more

When we played doctor i must have made a mess
But i fixed her little wagon up good, i guess
She said ken never made her heart beat so
But he lacked that certain somethin' as we all know
Now i burst her little bubble, her mind's about to go
I gotta get her to the doll hospital

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These days it's hard to have fun
Looking for a little girl, a little undone
By the progress of man
By the touch of a loving hand

Maybe we touch too much
You and me, baby, i'm not good in a clutch
I'm not gonna sit and cry
Though i'm an unlucky guy
I'm forever wondering

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Forever yours
Forever yours
Forever opening doors
Forever yours
Forever yours
Forever

All this allegiance has me scared
They move in packs, we huddle in pairs
Two in a million one-way fares
Anybody going anywhere?

So this is the modern dance
You and me, baby, this love don't stand a chance
But i'm not gonna sit and cry
Though i'm an unlucky guy
I'm forever wondering

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Yours to have and yours to unfold
Who's to say we're just getting old
You're the one never done what i told her
This chip on my shoulder is
Getting smaller by the day
Just when i was getting used to getting my way
Everybody has a to pay
When love finally has her say

I guess i better speak up now
You and me, baby, i'm holding on somehow
I'm not gonna sit and cry
No, i'm just a lucky guy
I'm forever wondering, forever wondering

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We've been training
Now we look like each other
Face down and
Booked and printed for young lovers
Even as i write out of this song
The ink wears off but the beat goes on

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I pledge my edge of the razor
No minor league night in the majors
Even though we cut up, we can really cut 'em down
Though you're sharper than me, it's too late to turn around

Heavy trading
On the floor at the market
A million keys for my heart
But they'll never unlock it
We played for laughs now love is the prize
If we're playing for keeps, keep these tears from my eyes

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Bridge:
One slice of life
One lover's lane
One man and a wife
Not taken in vain
While they're cutting deals with grim reapers
Tell me, where'd you get those peepers

Well i filling out all the pages of this questionaire
But i left out all the details of this affair
They'll never get it down on the books
So they'll never know how much it took

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They took enough of my mind
To make a calculator
Addin' up the figures, they'll find
That love's a dumbwaiter

Waitin' for the dream to fade
Right into you hit parade
Maybe i've made that long black list
But i was born when we first kissed

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Not another overnight story
No overnight success
We've hung around too long for glory
Is it too late for happiness?
Yesterday is over now
And we've come too far to bow

Here comes swifty, they're off
To chase another headline
But all the news gets soft
Before it makes the deadline

The morning paper hits my door
But i don't read it any more
Yes i know what went on last night
You made your coffin before daylight

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They're adding inches at our expense
To the measure of their capital worth
The next big thing is gonna dance and sing
Us all off of the face of this earth

They call it big time love
But i'm not nervous
'cause all your turtledoves
Are out of service

And all those arc lights comb the sky
For any little birds that fly
You're all still jerks, and we're still here
Fast asleep at the big premiere

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Now your private life
Is in the public domain
And your one true love is just a lipstick stain

And your point of view
Is just a figure of speech
Well i rest my case, you're out of reach

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Havin' some fun
Havin' some fun now
Havin' some fun
Havin' some fun now

Well the tough get goin', and the good die young
Maybe you're the only good your mama ever done
But you wouldn't know a good thing if you saw

One, two, three
I'm down on my knees
Four, five, six
Gotta lot to fix
Seven, eight, nine
Goin' outta my mind
And it's a fast free fall
From a long hard climb

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And you wonder how
You ever got it so far
From a mel bay book
Into a long black car

And all along the way
They never made you cry
But they never got the joke
And you don't know why

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The party's over and the war is won
And you know what you're doin'
'cause you know what you've done
But you wouldn't know a good thing if you saw

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