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[Intro 2]
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[Verse 1]
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  I got a postcard in the mail today
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and on the back she wrote the words that she could not say,
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on the front a desert sky orange red and brown.
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She wrote: will you think of me when the sun goes down?

[Verse 2]
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  She wrote it wasn't anything I did
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to make her leave me all alone to raise both our kids.
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Said she cannot spend the night in that desert town
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'cause she always thinks of me when the sun goes down

[Chorus]
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  So hard to know how long it's gonna take
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  to heal a heart that was never supposed to break.

[Verse 3]
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She said to tell her mother hi for her
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and that she thinks of coming home but she's still not sure.
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Plays piano when she can but she hates the sound
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and she always thinks of me when sun goes down.

[Chorus]
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  So hard to know how long it's gonna take
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  to heal a heart that was never supposed to break,   what a mistake.

[Interlude]
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[Verse 4]
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  I put that postcard in the fire tonight
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like all the others that she sends 'cause they're all alike.
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I closed the window and I pulled the shades all down,
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I'm not gonna think of her when the sun goes down,
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  when the sun goes down,
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  when the sun goes down,
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  when the sun goes down,
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  when the sun goes down,
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  when the sun goes down.