I feel like Buddy Holly (video)

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1. I watched the planes come in on the early morning flights,

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but I could not stand to see them land without you.

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Now I’m thumbing through my forty-fives on another endless night,

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and the same old lines, going back in time, tell me this is nothing new.

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Well, I feel like Buddy Holly, ‘cause it’s raining in my heart,

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all the sad songs take me back to you now that we are apart.

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Now I know how Paul McCartney felt when he got up to say :

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I wish it was yesterday.

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2. So I sit here playing solitaire, it is a game I know so well,

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ever since that day you called to say it’s over.

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Now I’ve made my reservation at the Heartbreak Hotel,

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while I am living without you, I am thinking about you,

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like only the lonely do.

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Well, I feel like Buddy Holly, ‘cause it’s raining in my heart,

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all the sad songs take me back to you now that I know we are apart.

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Now I know what Paul Simon meant by the words he found,

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I wish I was homeward bound.

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Well, I feel like Buddy Holly, ‘cause it’s raining in my heart,

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all the sad songs take me back to you now that we are apart.

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Now I know how Paul McCartney felt when he got up to say :

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I wish it was yesterday.

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+ I wish it was yesterday, I wish it was yesterday ...

(Alvin Stardust)