It's opening night
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let's give them their money's worth
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may this show run and run
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till it falls off the edge of the earth
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put on your make-up
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powder puff adder of mine
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dusk is upon us
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switch on that shining sign
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I am a major prophet
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I'm heaven and hell bent strong
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I am the height of a sign
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wide of the mark
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deep as the Amazon
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I must impress on them
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this opportunity
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it'll be too late
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by the time they put me on TV
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I feel sharp
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I feel blunt
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a precision instrument
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I really gleam
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watch me bite on a bullet
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and spit out a limousine
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I am a major prophet
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I'm heaven and hell bent strong
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I am the height of a sign
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wide of the mark
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deep as the Amazon
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Feel my wild sadness blowing down
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feel my wild sadness blowing
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all the way down
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I stand before you
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in full possession of the facts
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I make no use of effects
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no use for clever counterbalancing acts
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I've broken every bone of meaning
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in this body and this soul
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I've bought knowledge
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at the cost of a complete loss of self-control
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All the truth you can bear
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is yours to take away tonight
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- the longer you leave it
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- the more there's to leave
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like you, I once saw
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those pretty colours in black and white
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- you've got to get it over with
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- stop being naive
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strangers to truth and to fiction
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you will remain
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- if I meet you at the fountainhead
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- I'll win you downstream
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walk away if you like
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you've only yourself to blame
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- I'm not talking eyewash
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- I'm talking strychnine
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I am a major prophet
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I'm heaven and hell bent strong
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I am the height of a sign
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wide of the mark
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deep as the Amazon
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And I simply may be evil
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I simply may be evil
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Redneck
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| Luxuria |
