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Artist: Gilbert O'Sullivan
Suggested Track: Alone Again (Naturally)

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In a little while from now
If I'm not feeling any less sour
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower
And climbing to the top
Will throw myself off
In an effort to make clear to whomever
What it's like when you're shattered
Left standing in the lurch
At a church where people saying
My God, that's tough, she stood him up
No point in us remaining
We may as well go home
As I did on my own
Alone again, naturally

To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful, bright, and gay
Looking forward to, well, who wouldn't do
The role I was about to play
But, as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much as a mere touch
Cut me into little pieces
Leaving me to doubt
Talk about God in His mercy
Who, if He really does exist
Why did He desert me?
And in my hour of need
I truly am, indeed
Alone again, naturally

It seems to me that there are more hearts
Broken in the world that can't be mended
Left unattended
What do we do?
What do we do?

Alone again, naturally

Now, looking back over the years
And whatever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul
Couldn't understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start
With a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally
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Gilbert O'Sullivan
Gilbert O'Sullivan (born Raymond Edward O'Sullivan, 1 December 1946) is an Irish singer-songwriter, best known for his early 1970s hits “Alone Again (Naturally)”, “Clair”, and “Get
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Gilbert O'Sullivan – Alone Again (Naturally)
“Alone Again (Naturally)” is a song by Gilbert O'Sullivan that was featured on his 1972 U.S. album Himself. He wrote and produced the song…himself. The song topped the Billboard
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There's people who believe / That what we're to receive / Is meant to happen anyway / Then there're those who'll admit / That they're literally scared stiff of it / No matter what
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Save it for your children / This love that you have got / Forget me now that I am sure / It's you that I want not / Save if for your loved / Ones who come to you each day / No
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If I ask you politely / What it is your going to be / When you grow up you tall me / A woman / Came to see me yesterday / In the merry month of September / I took a trip to see
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Everytime a bell rings / I go berserk / I climb into my hole / And sit there like a mole / Playing with the dirt / Contradicting people who think of me as being / So soft and
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You can roll me up a bill / You can roll me out a dice / Can't say what I'm thinking / If I think it might be twice / But I tell you for sure / Got no head for figures but yours
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I've only this to say to you know why / Good bye, bye bye / My loneliness endears it but so do I / Good bye, bye bye / You'd think by now that somehow / You'd have changed / Long
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Did you ever (never) neither have I / Well, pardon me for breathing but / Would you give me back my cup / You know the one I mean / Yes, you do because I've seen you take it out
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