The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at play
   Through the meadow land toward a closing door
   A door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before
   The lone-ly night discloses just a passing breeze filled with memories
   Of the golden smile that introduced me to
   The days of wine and roses and you
  
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   The days of wine and roses
  
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   The lonely-----the night discloses just a passing breeze filled with memories
   Of the golden smile that introduced me to
   The days of wine and roses and you