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[Verse 1]
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She said it’s hard for me to explain to you the brightness of the light,
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I can still remember when my life was like that 
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A real and painless beauty I remember as a kid, when I thought that I knew everything, and in a way I did
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She was a virgin then, a child in a million, with deep round hazel eyes of blazing intuition
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She called me over to her side and said will you please listen
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I want to show you something, something I’ve just written
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And I’m calling it Poetry And Jazz


[Verse 2]
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She watched her happy family turn to a broken home, her father left with someone else, her mother on her own
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Her fourteenth birthday her mother spent in tears, she celebrated on her own her adolescent years
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It was hell then,    caught in the crossfire of an emotional triangle she couldn’t keep together
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I held her softly and she sobbed upon my shoulder
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Saying as you are the closest thing that I’ve got to a brother
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Explain to me, why is life so sad


[Verse 3]
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Sixteen was better, cause sixteen was boys, makeup, parties, alcohol and clothes
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And saying to your boyfriend, come on get out of bed, its 3 o’clock in the afternoon, my mother’s coming back
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And she smiled then, her eyes filled with laughter, she didn’t know if it was love but it didn’t really matter
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She called me on the phone and said get this big brother
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I’ve just got rid of one boyfriend and got myself another
          G       G   F#m      D
And listen, this one drives a Jag


[Verse 4]
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She left school and boyfriend for university, three years of study for an arts degree
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Her clothes were outrageous, her hair was many colours, her work was radical and so were her ideas
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She said this is brilliant, this place is heaven – on a score of 1 to 10 I’d give this place 11
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It kicks you up the arse and it fires you with ambition, I often used to feel as if my life was just a prison
        G         G     F#m        D
Now I realise it isn’t quite that bad


[Verse 5]
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I was invited to an exhibition a little while ago to an art gallery in Paris where she has a studio
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She looked sophisticated, she was wearing a bronze tan, and she’d sold all her work for some outrageous sum
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And I looked at her and I started laughing
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I said you’re supposed to be an artist, you’re supposed to be suffering
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And she just smiled back and she pointed to this picture
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Of a young girl around which she’d written out this poem
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She’d shown me once, Poetry And Jazz


[Verse 6]
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My name is Angela, I am 12 years old, I’ve given up on working hard and doing as I’m told
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I see a child psychologist who’s spotted in my head a recipe for delinquency or something just as bad
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And I’ll fight     for my independence, I see the world in another way to my teacher and my parents
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My priorities are different and my life is not as aimless, I am not disruptive, I am not dangerous
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I've rhythm and purpose, like Poetry and Jazz


[Verse 7]
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She said it’s hard for me to explain to you the brightness of the light,
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I can still remember when my life was like that
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A real and painless beauty I remember as a kid when I thought that I knew everything, and in a way I did


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