I'm the king's thirty second son
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Born to him in thirty second's time
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Born to him the night still young
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Born to him with two eyebrows on
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And that's all I was wearing
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When I woke up staring at the world
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My mom had been around the graves of queens
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But not at all a sex machine
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She liked to keep her body clean, clean
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Thought the world to be quite obscene
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But she retired to her chamber
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And we remain quite strangers
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And to see me made her awful sad
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And to touch me made her awful sad
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And to see me made her awful
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And to touch me made her awful
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I'm the king's thirty second son
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And all it took was thirty second's time
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But a spoiled little prince I was not
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Had a chamber maid and a chamber pot
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And there's thirty one others just like me
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There's thirty one others I can be
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Someimtes I'd stand by the royal wall
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The sky'd be so big that it broke my soul
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And i stood on my toes to catch a glimpse
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Of my mother's eyes and my mother's skin
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And she retired to her chamber
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And we remain quite strangers
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And to see me made her awful sad
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And to touch me made her awful sad
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And to see me made her awful
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And to touch me made her awful
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And one morning I woke up
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and I thought Oedipus, Oedipus, Oedipus, Oedipus
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Then one morning I woke up and I thought Rex, Rex, Rex
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Then one morning I woke up
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and I thought Oedipus, Oedipus, Oedipus, Oedipus
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Thirty two's still a goddamn number
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Thirty two's still counts
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Gonna make it count
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Gonna make it count
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Gonna oh oh
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Thirty two's still a goddamn number
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Thirty two still counts
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Gonna make it count
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Gonna make it count
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Gonna oh oh
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Long live the king
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Long live the king
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Long live the king
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Long live the king
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Long live the king
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Long live the king
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Long live the king
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Long live the
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I'm the king's thirty second son
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There's thirty one others just like me
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There's thirty one others on the way
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There's thirty one others after that
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Sometimes I stand by the royal gate
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People screaming love and hate
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And they scream
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And they scream
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And they scream
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And they scream
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Long live the king,
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long live the queen
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And to see me made her awful sad
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And to touch me made her awful sad
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And to see me made her awful
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And to touch me made her awful
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And one morning I woke up
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and I thought Oedipus, Oedipus, Oedipus, Oedipus
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Then one morning I woke up and I thought Rex, Rex, Rex
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Then one morning I woke up
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and I thought Oedipus, Oedipus, Oedipus, Oedipus
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Thirty two's still a goddamn number
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Thirty two's still counts
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Gonna make it count
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Gonna make it count
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Gonna oh oh
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Thirty two's still a goddamn number
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Thirty two's still a goddamn number
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Thirty two's still a goddamn number
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Thirty two's still a goddamn number
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Thirty two
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Thirty two
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Thirty two
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Thirty two
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Thirty two
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Thirty two
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Thirty two
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Long live the king
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Long live the king
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Long live the king
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Long live the king
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Long live the king
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Long live the king
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Long live the king
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Long live the king
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Oedipus
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