History Never Repeats

Album: Waiata (1981)
Charted: 63
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  • [chorus:]
    History never repeats
    I tell myself before I go to sleep
    Don't say the words you might regret
    I've lost before you know I can't forget

    There was a girl I used to know
    She dealt my love a savage blow
    I was so young, too blind to see
    But anyway that's history

    I say [chorus]

    You say I always played the fool
    Well I can't go on, if that's the rule
    Better to jump than hesitate
    I need a change and I can't wait

    [chorus2:]
    History never repeats
    I tell myself before I go to sleep
    And there's a light shining in the dark
    Leading me on towards a change of heart (ah-ar)

    History never repeats, history never repeats

    Deep in the night it's all so clear
    I lie awake with great ideas
    Lurking about in no-man's land
    I think at last I understand

    [chorus2]
    Never repeats!...
    Hey.... Hey....
    Never repeats!

    And I say, that's all
    Remember til the next time

    [all?:] thank you!

    won't you stay, stay a while with my own one
    one more day, one more day with my own ones
    this old world, is so cold, don't care nothing for your soul
    you share with your own ones...

    Haul away, haul away, heave away, haul away, haul away, heave away Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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