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He told me that I knew just what to laugh at
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and I wanted to but I just couldn't ask if he would take it back so
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I could know for certain
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So on the bench I watched his left hand crossing
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while doubling entendres with the voicings
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He said Oh darling you're charming Please don't find it alarming if I
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pull this stop out to free up a hand for heavy petting
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Now there there
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I'm a friendly man
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I joke about sex because it's funny when you're
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frightened ah ah
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ah ah ah ah
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So silently I sat and turned the pages
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recalculating our respective ages
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Over my shoulder he muttered If I get any older you can
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hack my wrists off with your choice of objects no I'm kidding
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Don't be scared
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I'm a friendly man
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I joke about death because it's funny when you're
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frightened ah ah
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ah ah ah ah
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This is as far as I could get
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He jabbed a needle in my neck
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erasing all the evidence
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but there were matchsticks in my pants
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and if a rock should hit my head
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and I remember what he did
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you'll be the very first to know
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Maybe I'll find out why this damn thing won't stop bleeding
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He told me that I showed a great potential
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that given I turned heads and pages fame would be a piece of cake
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but practice was essential
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So like a stupid child I believed it
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and golly who would ever had agreed if
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I had been Schubert or Mozart devoted to the fine art of
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perfecting absolutely everything inconsequential
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Don't be sad
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I'll come back again
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I joke about trash 'cause it takes class to be
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enlightened ah ah
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ah ah ah ah
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So several decades have gone by
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I am still sitting by his side
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I turn the pages faithfully
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He turns his head and smiles at me
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and with a wink he says I doubt
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we would be anywhere without
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your gift for keeping truth and consequence from meeting
(instrumental to end)