The day
before you came
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E
1. I must have left my house
at eight because I always do,
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my
train, I’m certain, left the station just when it was due.
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G
I must have read the morning
paper going into town,
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C
and having gotten
through the editorial no doubt I must have frowned.
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G
I must have made
my desk around a quarter after nine,
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with letters to
be read and heaps of papers waiting to be signed.
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I must have gone to lunch at
half past twelve or so,
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the
usual place, the usual bunch,
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and
still on top of this I’m pretty sure it must have rained,
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the
day before you came.
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E
2. I must have lit my seventh
cigarette at half past two,
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and
at the time I never even noticed I was blue.
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G
I must have kept on dragging through the
business of the day,
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without really
knowing anything I hid a part of me away.
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G
At five I must
have left, there’s no exception to the rule,
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a matter of routine I’ve done it ever since
I finished school.
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On the train back home again,
undoubtedly I must have read
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the
evening paper then,
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E
oh,
yes, I’m sure my life was well within its usual frame,
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the
day before you came.
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E
3. I must have opened my
front door at eight o’clock or so,
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and stopped along
the way to buy some Chinese food to go.
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G
I’m sure I had my
dinner watching something on T.V.
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C
There’s not, I think, a single
episode of Dallas that I didn’t see.
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G
I must have gone to bed around
a quarter after ten,
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I need a lot of
sleep and so I like to be in bed by then.
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I must have read
a while the latest one by Marilyn French
Dm
or somethin in that style,
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it’s
funny but I had no sense of living without aim,
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the
day before you came.
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And turning out
the light, I must have yawned and cuddled up
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for yet another night,
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E
and
rattling on the roof I must have heard the sound of rain,
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the
day before you came.
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(orig. = capo 3rd) (Abba)