Rebecca
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1. Get you, brushing your hair with the wind,
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riding your
bike up on
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Oh, I got a five-minute…
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2. …rush from you in your faded blue jeans,
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How many years is it you've
been alive?
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Oh, I'll take a guess.
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Rebecca, could it be eighteen, nineteen or so?
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Oh, Rebecca, will I ever know?
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3. No way, where would I fit in your life?
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What would you do with a man
without change.
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too strange
and too poor…
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4. ….to be trusted, rusted a couple of times,
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shaken a bit by the years on
the road,
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and the women I've known?
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Rebecca, you'd have liked the name I gave to you,
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Oh, Rebecca, if
you only knew.
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Go home to your father's friends,
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straight sons to your mother's friends,
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sweet ones to
those families,
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well-to-do
and so well-established.
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5. And one day you might wake up to a shock, girl,
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what has it come to, this sensible
life.
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The wife of
a fool?
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Rebecca, reading magazines in a chic salon.
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Oh, Rebecca, where's
Rebecca gone?
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(Albert Hammond