The Way We Were

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Mem'ries, light the corners of my mind,

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Misty water-colored mem'ries

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of the way we were.

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Scattered pictures, of the smiles we left behind,

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Smiles we gave to one another, for the way we were.

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Can it be that it was all so simple then?

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Or has time rewritten every line?

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If we had the chance to do it all again,

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Tell me, would we, could we?

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Mem'ries, may be beautiful and yet

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What's too painful to re-mem-ber,

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We simply choose to forget.

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So it's the laugh ter, we will remember

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Whenever we re-mem-ber

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The way we were,

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The way we were.