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Artist: The Decemberists
Album: 5 Songs EP
Song: Apology Song
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I'm really sorry, Steven, but your bicycle's been stolen
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I was watching it for you 'til you came back in the fall
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I guess I didn't do such a good job after all
I was feeling really sorry, Steven, and I spent all morning grieving
And everybody's saying that you'll take the news gracefully
Somehow, I don't think I'll be getting off that easily
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I meant her no harm when I left her unlocked outside the Orange Street Food Farm
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I was just running in, didn't think I'd be that long
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I came out, she was gone, and all that was there was some bored old dog,
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Leashed up to the place where your bicycle had been
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I guess we'll never see poor Madeline again
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Let this be consolation, Steven, that all the while you were in England,
I treated her with care and respect and gave her lots of love,
And I was usually pretty good 'bout locking her up
Where has she gone, well, I bet she's on the bottom of the French Town Pond,
Rudely abused on some heshner's joy ride
So I wrote you this song in the hopes that you'd forgive me even though it was wrong,
Being so careless with a thing so great
And taking your poor Madeline away
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