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The Luckiest Tab

by Ben Folds


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I don't get many things right the first time
                            
In fact, I am told that a lot
                         
Now I know all the wrong turns,
                                                               
The stumbles and falls brought me here

                        
And where was I before the day
                                    
That I first saw your lovely face
                  
Now I see it every day
         
And I know
     
          
That I am
  
I     
 -                    
I am the luckiest




                     
What if I'd been born
                 
Fifty years before you
      
In a house
                                  
On the street where you live
      
                     
Maybe I'd be outside
                                
As you passed on your bike
                                 
Would I know?
     
                       
And in a wide see of eyes
                                          
I see one pair I recognize







         
And I know

           
That I am
  
I     
 -                    
I am the luckiest


                                   
I love you more than I have
                                       
Ever found a way to say to you

        
Next door
                
There's an old man
                      
Who lived to his nineties
                                                
And one day, passed away in his sleep

                         
And his wife, she stayed
                                                       
For a couple of days and passed away

         
I'm sorry, I know that's a 
                                    
Strange way to tell you that I know
               
We belong
        
That I know

           
That I am
  
I     
 -                                     
I am the luckiest