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Ballad of a Lost House
I
Hungry Heart, Hungry Heart, where have you been?
I've been to a town where lives a queen.
I've been to a town where lives a queen.
Hungry Heart, Hungry Heart, what did you there?
I ran all the way to a certain Square.
I ran all the way to a certain Square.
Hungry Heart, say what you did that for!
To find a street and a certain door;
And there I knocked my knuckles sore.
To find a street and a certain door;
And there I knocked my knuckles sore.
II
That was a foolish thing to do,
Alone in the night the long hours through;
Alone in the night the long hours through;
Gaping there like a chalky clown
At a stranger-door that had been your own.
At a stranger-door that had been your own.
Where was your pluck and where your pride?
They both were there, and love beside;
And suddenly the door swung wide.
They both were there, and love beside;
And suddenly the door swung wide.
I heard the sound of a violin
That seemed to bid me enter in:
That seemed to bid me enter in:
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