Apology Song lyrics

I`m really sorry Steven,
But your bicycle`s been stolen.
I was watching it for you
`till you came back in the fall.
Guess I didn`t do such a good job after all.
I was feeling really sorry Steven
and I spent all morning grieving,
and everybody`s sayin that you`ll take the news gracefully.
Somehow I don`t think I`ll be getting off that easily.

I meant her no harm when I left her unlocked outside
The Orange Street Food Farm.
I was just running in didn`t think I`d be that long.
I came out she was gone,
and all that was there was some bored old dog
leashed up to the place where you bicycle`d been.
Guess we`ll never see poor Madeleine again.

Let this be consolation Steven,
that all the while you were in England,
I treated her with care and respect and gave her lots of love
and I was usually pretty good `bout locking her up.

Where has she gone,
well I bet she`s on the bottom of a French Town pond,
rudely abused on some heshner`s joyride.

So I wrote you this song,
in the hopes that you`d forgive even though it was wrong,
being so careless with a thing so great,
and taking your poor Madeleine away.
Away.
Away.
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