She was smiling in the sun at a sidestreet cafe
  She had a love in her eyes an ease in her way
  Like her soul was lit up, her heart rang like a bell
  I'll never know her name but I remember her well
  
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  People you're passing on the street
  They're the friends you may never meet
  And everybody's paid the cost
  Of a little sweet loss
  
  In a downtown honky tonk, a kindly old gentleman
  Sitting at a table alone, a picture of a dog in his hand
  He wiped away a tear and I'll never know just why
  What thought going through his head was enough to make him cry
  
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  There's something going on forever in everything around
  Connecting everyone, every sight and sound
  I can see through a glass darkly but someday face to face
  What do I hope to find by the end of this race
  
  Looking out from a black and white picture that itself is fifty years old
  Sitting at a desk in St Louis talking on the radio
  A girl of twenty five, she hopes to realize her dreams
  She and I are not so different, there's just some time and space between
  
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