Beautiful Sadness

Words and Music by Melanie Safka Schekeryk

Capo 4th fret

 

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Nobody's home tonight and I've left my key
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Somehow this place we live never belonged to me
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I should've made the big move

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Cause our love is past
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You tell me love is like that
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Ah don't make me laugh

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Just leave me my beautiful sadness
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And don't Oh oh don’t  make me laugh
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Just leave me my beautiful sadness
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And don’t Ooh don't make me laugh
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Don't make me laugh……Uhuh

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Cause nothing less than what is true
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Is all I need to know
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Spare me lines about growing pains
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And your freedom to come and to go

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Just leave me my beautiful sadness
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And don't don’t don’t don’t make me laugh
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Just leave me my beautiful sadness
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And don't don’t make me laugh
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Don't make me laugh

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Some folks make the most of their little cry
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I shall love every minute when we say goodbye
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Cause I can't, I can't, I can't be in between
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Your little more, little more than the past

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Just leave me my beautiful sadness
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Just leave me in my beautiful sadness
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Just leave me in my beautiful sadness
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Ah jus Just leave me my beautiful sadness
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And Oooh, don't make me laugh

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Please leave me, leave me, in my beautiful sadness
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And don't baby, don’t don't make me laugh
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Just leave me my beautiful sadness
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And don't Oooh, don't make me laugh

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