I wrote a song
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That everyone loved
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With an acoustic guitar
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And a rhyming thesauras
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And I found an angle
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That no one had thought of
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The story wrapped
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in an undeniable chorus
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And everyone fell in love with that song
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It must be the way that the melody
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marries the lyrics
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someone should hear this
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cut one is the song
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I booked a few gigs
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At every regional bar
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And sold thousands of copies
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From the trunk of my car
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An underground journalist
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said it was hot
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And it could really take off
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If track 2 got a shot
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He wrote I fell in love with that song
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It must be the way that the melody
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marries the lyrics
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someone should hear this
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cut two is the song
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I landed a deal
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They loved my cd
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A&R was excited about
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Track number 3
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But said the snare was too loud
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And guitar too distorted
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Let's get big named producer
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And just re-record it
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Cause we all believe that is the song
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It must be the way that the melody
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Marries the lyric
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The public should hear it
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Cut 3 is the song
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The producer had never heard
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Demos this great
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And there was just something special
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About 5, 6 and 8
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The record execs
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said the research was in
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they had made up their mind
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they're now goin' with track 10
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cause everyone fell in love with that song
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we couldn't believe they were serious
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they had to be jokin' no the public had spoken
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cut 10 is the one
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so the marketing geniuses
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developed a plan
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to spend lots of money
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and package the band
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Hit the road in a bus
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The show started to gel
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but we couldn't recoup
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with no records to sell
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but the fans fell in love with the songs
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they said where can we find the cd
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we just downloaded 3...free on kazaa
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la la la la...
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And radio said if a song had potential
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Cut 4 surely had it
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but nobody had the balls to add it
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So the record came out
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And it sat on the shelf
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There was no need to talk about songs 9 thru 12
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After the whole thing was over and done
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The public still talked about song number 1
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Everyone fell in love with that song
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It must be the way that the melody marries the lyrics
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But no one would hear it
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They all fell in love with that song
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Yeah I may have written
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The greatest most passionate song no one's ever heard
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We should have just covered freebird
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Cut Number 7
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Frickin' A |