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Cover art for In a Lonely Place lyrics by Smithereens, The

Inspire by the Humphrey Bogart film of the same name.

The lines "I was born the day I met you, Lived a while when you loved me, Died a little when we broke apart."

riffs on Bogey's closing line:

"I was born when she met me, died when she left me. Lived a few weeks while she loved me".

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