The Day Before You Came - Meryl Streep

[00:10.24]I must have left my house at eight
[00:12.58]Because I always do
[00:14.58]
[00:18.46]My train I'm certain
[00:20.08]Left the station just when it was due
[00:22.79]
[00:26.90]I must have read the morning papers
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[00:29.87]Going into town
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[00:35.29]And having gotten through the editorials
[00:38.81]No doubt I must have frowned
[00:41.38]
[00:44.85]I must have made my desk
[00:46.48]
[00:48.11]Around a quarter after nine
[00:50.13]
[00:54.40]With letters to be read
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[00:57.09]And heaps of papers waiting to be signed
[01:00.42]
[01:04.05]I must have gone to lunch
[01:05.69]
[01:06.43]At half past twelve or so
[01:08.47]The usual place the usual bunch
[01:10.60]
[01:13.70]And still on top of this
[01:15.48]I'm pretty sure it must have rained
[01:17.71]
[01:21.15]The day before you came
[01:24.10]
[01:31.78]I must have lit my second cigarette
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[01:34.95]At half past two
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[01:40.18]And at the time
[01:41.35]I never even noticed I was blue
[01:45.09]
[01:48.48]I must have kept on
[01:49.82]Dragging through the business of the day
[01:52.77]
[01:57.14]And without really knowing anything
[01:59.21]
[01:59.80]I hid a part of me away
[02:02.29]
[02:06.53]At six I must have left
[02:08.34]
[02:09.55]There's no exception to the rule
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[02:16.16]A matter of routine
[02:17.37]
[02:18.57]I've done it ever since I finished school
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[02:25.67]The train back home again
[02:27.40]
[02:28.23]Undoubtedly I must have read
[02:30.34]The evening papers then
[02:32.44]
[02:35.29]Oh yes I'm sure my life was well
[02:37.73]Within its usual frame
[02:39.89]
[02:42.78]The day before you came
[02:45.21]
[03:26.97]I must have opened my front door
[03:29.35]At eight o'clock or so
[03:30.87]
[03:35.27]And stopped along the way
[03:37.01]To buy some chinese food to go
[03:39.33]
[03:43.62]I'm sure I had my dinner
[03:45.62]Watching something on tv
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[03:52.06]There's not a single episode of
[03:54.66]House of cards that I have failed to see
[03:58.04]
[04:01.72]I must have gone to bed
[04:03.34]
[04:04.83]Around a quarter after ten
[04:07.09]
[04:11.26]I need a lot of sleep
[04:12.72]
[04:13.82]And so I like to be in bed by then
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[04:20.83]I must have read a while
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[04:23.53]The latest margaret atwood book
[04:25.34]Or something in that style
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[04:30.39]It's funny
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[04:31.61]But I had no sense of living without aim
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[04:38.00]The day before you came
[04:40.73]
[04:43.70]And turning out the light
[04:45.70]
[04:46.32]I must have yawned and settled in
[04:48.52]For yet another night
[04:50.19]
[04:53.33]And rattling on the roof
[04:55.16]I must have heard the sound of rain
[04:57.43]
[05:00.81]The day before you came