Sweet Lady Lizzie

Written by Joseph May and Kevin Eberhardt

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I’m reading a story and I hope that it comes true

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I’m still working on my own but I’ll share it now with you

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The story, on both fronts, a classic tale coming of age

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But the only thing I’ve got lies on that page

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I met this girl named Emily and her eyes dazzled me

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Similarly to what miss Lizzie’s did to Darcy

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Her story ends quite well, meanwhile I’m sitting living hell

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So Instead I’m spending time with lady Lizzie

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We shared all the things we loved, and swapped our favorite book

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She gave me hers, and I gave it a look, about a woman and the time that she took

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To court a man romantically, fall into the nobility

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And that’s where I met sweet lady lizzie

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I said alright, read mine, its about sex and immortality

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She laughed and said I’ll take it happily

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That night we lived forever, yearning for the nectar

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But the only page still turning is Lizzie’s

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We never saw eye to eye on what this thing could be

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But we carried on just fine surfing our wave naturally

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Till you shook me off like the wet on a dog, caught up upon a bump on a log

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she left me lonely with my lady lizzie

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Here the story ends with Emily, but sequels with Lizzie

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As lovers we were star-crossed, but as readers we were free

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Cuz there inside the cover, lies one last message from her

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But the only one still living it, the only one still living it, the only one still living it is me