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The test begins now I thought I was smart I thought I was right I thought it better not to fight I thought there was a virtue in always being cool So it came time to fight I thought I'll just step aside And that the time would prove you wrong And that you would be the fool I don't know where the sunbeams end And the starlights begin It's all a mystery Oh, to fight is to defend If it's not now, then tell me when would be the time That you would stand up and be a man For to lose, I could accept But to surrender I just wept and regretted this moment Oh that I, I was the fool I don't know where the sunbeams end And the starlights begin It's all a mystery And I don't know how a man decides What's right for his own life It's all a mystery 'Cause I'm a man, not a boy And there are things you can't avoid, you have to face them When you're not prepared to face them If I could, I would But you're with him now, I'd do no good I should have fought him, but instead I let him I let him take you I don't know where the sunbeams end And the starlights begin It's all a mystery And I don't know how a man decides What's right for his own life It's all a mystery I don't know where the sunbeams end And the starlights begin It's all a mystery 'Cause I don't know how a man decides What's right for his own life It's all a mystery And I don't know where the sunbeams end And the starlights begin It's all a mystery (but instead I wanna take it) Mystery The test is over now
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Tickets go on general sale Friday, 13th February at 10am GMT.

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