Roches - Home Away From Home lyrics

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She was twenty six when she came to the burbs<br />

Where the family secrets stop at the curbs<br />

I was nine when she moved next door<br />

She had married a republican he was for the war<br />

He was mean he beat her up<br />

All the time preaching that republican stuff<br />

Hated blacks hated jews<br />

Knelt down sundays at our lady of the blues<br />

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Over at my house things were sad<br />

Because my folks were always fighting that made me feel bad<br />

I went to her door with a cookie tin<br />

I said i am your neighbor would you let me in<br />

She was big having a baby<br />

She asked me are you hungry and i said maybe<br />

She gave me soup a piece of toast<br />

She gave me what i needed the most<br />

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Yeah,<br />

Thank you for the love you gave<br />

To me as a child<br />

There must have been so much pain<br />

That you never cried<br />

In my<br />

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Home away from home<br />

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Then one day we found a sick bird<br />

On the very same doorstep where i first met her<br />

Being a nurse well, she took the bird in<br />

And we fed her with an eye dropper til the following spring<br />

When the time came to let the bird go<br />

This is what she said when i cried no<br />

If you keep her locked inside<br />

Honey, she won't be able to fly<br />

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Yeah,<br />

Thank you for the love you gave<br />

To me as a child<br />

There must have been so much pain<br />

That you never cried<br />

In my<br />

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Home away from home<br />

Home away from home