| On a quiet street in the city a little old man walks along
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| Shuffling through the Autumn afternoon
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| And the Autumn leaves reminded him another summer’s come and gone
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| He had a long, lonely night ahead waitin' for June
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| Then among the leaves near an orphan’s home a piece of paper caught his eye
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| And he stooped to pick it up with trembling hands
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| And as he read the childish writing, the old man began to cry
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| 'Cause the words burned inside him like a flame
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| «Whoever finds this, I love you!»
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| «Whoever finds this, I need you!»
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| «I ain’t even got no one to talk to!»
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| «So, Whoever finds this, I love you!»
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| The old man’s eyes searched the orphan’s home
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| And cam to rest upon a child with her nose pressed up against the window pane
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| And the old man knew he’d found a friend, at last
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| So he waved at her and smiled
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| And they both knew they’d spend the winter laughing at the rain
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| (Spoken)
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| And they did spend the summer laughing at the rain, talking through the fence,
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| exchanging little gifts they’d made for each other. |
| The old man would carve
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| toys for the little girl, and she would draw pictures for him of beautiful
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| ladies surrounded by green trees and sunshine, and they laughed alot.
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| But then on the first day of June, the little girl ran to the fence to show
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| the man a picture she had drawn, BUT HE WASN’T THERE! |
| And somehow,
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| the little girl knew he wasn’t coming back. |
| So she went back to her little
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| room, took out a crayola and a piece of paper, and wrote:
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| «Whoever finds this, I love you!»
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| «Whoever finds this, I need you!»
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| «I don’t even have no one to talk to.»
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| «So, whoever finds this, I love you!» |