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The boy left home at twenty one, and sailed for a Hamburg town.
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His mother’s smell his guardian, her voice his angel’s sound.
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Thru dark streets he wandered, where flesh invites you in.
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Up cold steps at midnight, he dreamed of an ocean of love, 
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under the sky above.

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She saw him there in the corner, with a glass upon his knee.
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She lost all sense of danger, in his song her heart broke free.
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Laughing voices filled the street, where lovers are dancing home.
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Collapsing un---to sheets, there is an ocean of love 
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under the sky above
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Naked as a new-born child, I stood there in our room.
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She smiled upon my brokenness, and whispered some sweet tune.
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She said, I wrote this for you, take it everywhere you go.
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She held me close and sang to me, I’ve got an ocean of love, 
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under the sky above
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There is an ocean of love, under the sky above.
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I’ve got an ocean of love, under the sky above.