Veronica by Elvis Costello

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Is it all in that pretty little head of yours?

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What goes on in that place in the dark?

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Well I used to know a girl and I could have sworn

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That her name was Veronica

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Well she used to have a carefree mind of her own

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And a delicate look in her eye

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These days I'm afraid she's not even sure

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If her name is Veronica

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Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes

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Veronica has gone to hide?

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And all the time she laughs at those

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Who shout her name and steal her clothes

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Veronica – Veronica- Veronicaaaaaaaa

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Do the days drag by? Did the favors wane?

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Did he roam down the town all the while?

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Will you wake from your dream, with the wolf at the door

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Reaching out for Veronica?

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Well it was all of sixty-five years ago

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When the world was the street where she lived

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And a young man sailed on a ship in the sea

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With a picture of Veronica

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On the "Empress of India", and as she closed her eyes upon the world

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And picked upon the bones of last week's news

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She spoke his name out loud again

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Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes

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Veronica has gone to hide?

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And all the time she laughs at those

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Who shout her name and steal her clothes

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Veronica – Veronica- Veronicaaaaaaaa

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Veronica sits in her favourite chair

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And she sits very quiet and still

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And they call her a name that they never get right

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And if they-don't then nobody else will

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But she used to have a carefree mind of her own

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With a devilish look in her eye

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Saying "You can call me anything you like

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But my name is Veronica"

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Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes

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Veronica has gone to hide?

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And all the time she laughs at those

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Who shout her name and steal her clothes

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Veronica – Veronica- Ohhhhhhhhhhhh Veronica!