Intro: F#  C#

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Dear John
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What's wrong? 
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Why can't you just be anything you want? 
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Why not?   why not? 


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I tried to tell you then. You didn't understand. 
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They try and pigeonhole you. 
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Buddy, they don't even know you. 
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But hang on 
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my dear, dear, John. 


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Maybe you're not just like everyone, 
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so what, so what.
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And there's more 
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to live for, 
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than some abbreviated encore, 
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much more, much more. 


F#
You can't define yourself
C#
in terms of someone else. 
F#
You can't say what you're thinking? 
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But I don't know what you've been drinking. 
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But don't cry.
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'Cause life goes on.


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Dear John, you could be anything you want.
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Why not?  Why not?
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Why you could even be an astronaut,
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dear John,  dear John.