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Candice Morganauer's gone to join
the quick and the dead clever
tonight we're seeing her final film
her crowning endeavour
she washed herself for years
in mouthwatering praise
but we all know she never grew up
she just shrank sideways

Yesterday was fine, I've forgotten it somehow
last week wouldn't even show up on radar now
last week wouldn't even show up on radar now

Winnie the Obscure
he's weighing his own heart
he's been sleeping like Calvin Coolidge
to keep himself apart
and now he's crying
"Old Drella is dead, and I didn't feel a thing"
and Jude the Pooh with a landslide smile replies
"All the more power to him"

Under the roofs and the gutters up above
even the sparrows are burning up with human love
even the sparrows are burning up with human love

Night of light
it's failing over Gringley-On-The-Hill
powders are on the plantation wind
over Dallowgill
we reach the doors to the doubtful city
they close as if in pain
out on Howard Devoto Boulevard
I remember you and me
we're kissing in the rain

And it's all so gone
and this could never last
IThey drank their anniversary glass
A silent moment passed
Then they kissed
She knows there's something on his mind
He'll tell her in due time
What it is
CHORUS
He says "I've never built
Your mansion on a hill
Or warmed you in the Spanish sun
I simply blink my eye
And think as years fly by
of all the things we've never done"
She smiles and takes his hand in hers
And says "It just occurred
To me now
The thought that brings you such regret
What hasn't happened yet
It makes me proud..."
CHORUS
"You never walked away
When I needed you to stay
Or made me feel I'm not the one
There've been no broken vows
And the reason we're here now
Is all the things we've never done"
"We've never grown apart
You never broke my heart
With secrets that you've kept me from
We've never been untrue
And I'm still here with you
Through all the things we've never done"