Not A Love Story PDF

NOT A LOVE STORY
from Tales from the Bad Years
Lyrics by KAIT KERRIGAN

Music by BRIAN LOWDERMILK
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small sto - ry. It's just two friends all grown up.
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day. Why to - day?
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world did - n't crum - ble. You say good - bye, but do you real - ly know it's o - ver?
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all grown up. It hap - pens, it hap - pens,
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does it keep com - ing back to one dark se - cond?
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say the bed is too small for us.
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NOT A LOVE STORY

from Tales from the Bad Years

Lyrics by KAIT KERRIGAN

2008 by Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk. All rights reserved.

Prepared exclusively for Alexandra Sutherland. Please do not redistribute.

Prepared exclusively for Alexandra Sutherland. Please do not redistribute.

We have to spoon or we'll fall. But we re - fuse; we will not

Prepared exclusively for Alexandra Sutherland. Please do not redistribute.

Prepared exclusively for Alexandra Sutherland. Please do not redistribute.

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