In this house, there are many many mansions
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And a tower in desperate need of a spire
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And a million little churches for all denominations
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Better get good advice, if you're a first time buyer
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The ghosts around here, well, they are big business
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They're union so they only come out at night
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But they'll scare you half to death when you are sleeping
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So please remember when you turn out the lights
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Please clear off the floor
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Your tickets just aren't valid anymore
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Cos Elvis, Elvis has left the building
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It was just one small step for humanity
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But it took him half an hour to cross the floor
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And the little girls scream and turn into their mothers
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Who got much more respect before the war
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Used to be the world would take our cues from one another
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Now just one man can tear the world in half
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Some idiot's cracking jokes that he will never understand
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About how he hates gays and everybody laughs
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Please clear off the floor
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That joke just isn't funny anymore
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Cos Elvis, Elvis has left the building
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Elvis, Elvis has left the building
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Aloha Earth, This is Elvis calling
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You'll find me in the big house now
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I'm gone but I've not forgotten
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I've joined the order
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I've taken vows
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I didn't like what I saw down there anyhow
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Now everyone wants to see the clocks turned backwards
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To when men were men and women cooked their meals
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When you could only sing on tv from the waist up,
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(But you could do it live)
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Well I'm 25 and I don't know how that feels
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So me and my friends we decide to have a party
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But the outside world crashes and it gets so unreal
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Cos each of us is a fragment with a million little centres
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Soon someone will discover the wheel
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Please clear off the floor
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Your tickets just aren't valid anymore
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Cos Elvis, Elvis has left the building
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Elvis Has Just left The Building
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John Wesley Harding |