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Fools on parade cavort and carry on
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For waiting eyes
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Ones you would rather be beside than in front of
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But she's never been the kind to be hollowed by the stares
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She swam out of tonight's phantasm
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Grabbed my hand and made it very clear
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There's absolutely nothing for us here
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It's a magnolia celebration
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To be attended on a Wednesday night
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It's better that than get a reputation
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As a miserable little tyke
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At least that's the conclusion
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She came to in this overture
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The secret door swings behind us
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She's saying nothing
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She's just giggling along
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Her arms were folded most indignant
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Not looking like she was soon to leave
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I had to squint in order to believe
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And then like a butler pushing on a bookshelf
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And unveiling the unexpected
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I who was earlier reluctant was suddenly embarrassed and corrected.
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How could such a creature survive in such a habitat?
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The secret door swings behind us
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She's saying nothing
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She's just giggling along
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And even if they were to find us
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I wouldn't notice, I'm completely occupied
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At all the fools on parade
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Cavort and carry on for waiting eyes
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Ones you would rather be beside than in front of
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But she's never been the kind
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To be hollowed by the stares
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Fools on parade frolic and xxxx about
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To make a gaze turn to a scribble on a page by a picture
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That holds her absence
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But you're daft to think she'd care
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Fools on parade
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Fools on parade
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Fools on parade
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Conduct a sing-along