In addition to "Girl" by the Beatles

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 My boyfriend has been incarcerated for quite some time now and every so often he asks me to send him song lyrics. He asked me to send him lyrics to the song "Girl" by the Beatles and in addition to what the Beatles wrote I created another verse in response. 

                                                                    "Girl" by the Beatles

Is there anybody going to listen to my story

all about the girl who came to stay?

she's the kind of girl

you want so much, it makes you sorry

still you don't regret a single day

ah, girl, girl

when I think of all the times

I tried so hard to leave her

she will turn to me and start to cry

and she promises the earth to me

and I believe her

after all this time I don't know why

ah, girl, girl

she's the kind of girl who puts you down

when friends are there

when you say shes looking good

she acts as if it's understood

she's cool ooh, ooh, ooh

girl, girl, girl

was she told when she was young 

that pain would lead to pleasure?

did she understand it when they said 

that a man must break his back

to earn his day of leisure

will she still believe it when he is dead?

ah girl, girl, girl

ah girl, girl, girl


                                                              and what I say is:

is it worth dying everyday?

feeling foolish a life in dismay

for leisure of a woman

that treats you this way?

she'll always find pleasure 

in what leads to your pain

antagonize you, rise to the occasion

time and again

she'll rope you back in 

to recreate, in whatever she can

new ways of performing old habits

it was good while it lasted 

now you look for the exit

with no return in site

she can toss the line

but you don't have to bite.                             

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