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Here we are rounding the edge againAnd I wonder if you recall what you saidWhen I asked to hear your largest as yet unanswered questionAnd you said, ?Why bother at all?I just arrived by the train from Bombay.?Never heard anyone say it so plain.The prettiest girl in the room stoodCollected her thingsFastened her coat upAround her fine throatAnd though you didn?t notice thereFor just one moment wellI was the prettiest woman with youHalf a world away trying hard to stay world wide cameYou forgot the moment, forgot the comment, went on your wayThere?s got to be a better way to waste dayYour mother you told me had been a great beautyAnd suffered profoundly the loss of her looksYou gave a practiced exhausted expressionRecited a line from a quotations book?My father in his youth had offered full kai and the leader of wine?Math determine the height of the skyAnd the breath of one who would your lifeSongtexteNo ribbons, no starting guns sprinting around the sunMan?s quaint little raceThe even contenders get one thing to sayAnd it?s always the sameOur nameWhy bother?It is timing through spaceWe stayed up late until it became earlyAnd kept in the cold on the hood of your carThe neighbors the papers radio TV saidThis evening we could see thousands of fast falling starsThat sort of thing happens just once in a lifetime like oursI?m hopelessly excited Not much for star gazingBut couldn?t let all of those meteors passThis was our firstThis was our onlyThis was our very last chance Aus Songtexte Mania