THE BALLAD         

I left the simple pleasure
Goodbye to all my leisure
I'm leaving it, I've left it all to you

You can go wherever you like now
making love, forgetting the day that I knew
I would not be coming back

Did I lose my common sense?
Or did I think that you would never let me leave

I look down on the dark side
and remember all the good times
then I see there's nothing left for me

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Did I lose my common sense?
Or did I think that you would never let me leave

I left the simple pleasure
Goodbye to all my leisure
I'm leaving it, no I never look back
No, I never look back
so I'm saying so long to you.