Nineteen-eighty two

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Operator please connect me with Nineteen-eighty 
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two

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I need to make apologies for what I didn't do

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I sure do need to tell her that I thought

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the whole thing through

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And now it's clear that she is what

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I should have held on to.

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They say hindsight's twenty, twenty

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but I'm nearly goin blind

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From starin at her photograph and wishing she
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was mine

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It's that same old lost love story

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it's sad but it's true

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There was a time when she was mine

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in nineteen-eighty two.
Postman can you sell me - a special kind of stamp
One to send a letter from this crazy lonely man
Back into the wasted years of my living past
I need to tell her, now I know - how long my love will last.
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Losing my mind, going back in time

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to nineteen-eighty two.