Intro
In this bookcase full of stories
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You find some of them are true
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Tales of love and glory
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Many lives of daring-do
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There is mystery and adventure
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They lie waiting there for you
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So step inside and find the other you
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Take the high road tomorrow
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But the low road today
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Reading other's sorrow
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Might just be the only way
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The father hears confession
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While the mother's feeling blue
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These characters do what you want them to
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In these pages we consume
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Lives in many colors lovers in full bloom
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And through the age-s words are born
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Speaking to the senses lifting the forlorn
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There's glamour and dementia
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G# message from the tomb
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Staircase to the heavens
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And secrets in the room
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When you are riding on that dark horse
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To the one that got away
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There's no regrets and no dues left to pay
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'Cause in these pages we consume
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Lives in many colors lovers in full bloom
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And through the age-s words are born
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Speaking to the senses lifting the forlorn
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Drifting down the river of the make believe
We laugh and grieve
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Hoping for an ending of our own design
Where all is fine
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In these pages we consume
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Lives in many colors lovers in full bloom
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And through the age-s words are born
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Speaking to the senses lifting the forlorn
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In these pages we consume
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Lives in many colors lovers in full bloom
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And through the age-s words are born... (fade)