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Before I Get Over You

from Our Daddy's Plymouth by Bob Martin

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I wrote this song about the same girl to whom I had addressed "All the Things" a few years earlier. The last verse turned out to be true. I've already planned the epitaph for our tombstone: "True love, most of the time, forever."

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As I was sitting in the crowd,
And I was looking all around,
I saw you look at me
And smile just like you used to do.

I had a woman in my head,
But when I saw you out she went--
I saw you look at me
And smile just like you used to do;
I was mistaken when I thought
I got over you.

I looked away and missed again
The happiness that might have been
Had I the courage to be more than just a friend,
To be the man who is your husband.

I'm sure there'll be another girl,
I won't go lonesome through this world,
My love for her will grow
And grow as no other love grew--
But it will be a while
Before I get over you.

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from Our Daddy's Plymouth, released November 30, 1978

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