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[Verse 1]
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It's just a painting it's just a song
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Wonderous plate miraculous rag on
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Holding the promise of happiness high
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Beauteous speck in a dilated eye
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O you draw yourself a little leaner
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And you sing like somebody meaner
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Than you are
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Don't you tiger of paper?

[Verse 2]
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A many false windowed thing
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A kite in a lecturing wind
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Awaiting intellectual strike
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Cast the pens down in the dome
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Tonight have you read the poets lately?
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They don't get a weekly monthly
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Bi-annual now you may
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Cry but I doubt you will

[Break]
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[Verse 3]
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Ten years is all it took ten years in
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Thrall to a lickspittle crook now you don't
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Know the crooked lay of the land
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You don't trust any man to shake your
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Hand without taking a thumb or a finger
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How the vilest scent will linger
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While the sweetest pass away so
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Swiftly

[Verse 4]
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On this patriot day sound the national

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Band sweep the plain you sunburnt and bland
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And I'll pollute the perfect stanza for
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Music in a deft show of hubris unplanned
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Hitch a skiff with a dusky daughter
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Sail down a river of grey water
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Musics keeping the drain
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Alive with all this fake jive

[Solo]
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[Verse 5]
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Life is a painting life is a song
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It holds the promise of happiness
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I could tell you where it goes wrong
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As good as tell you why the longing long
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You the poor painter average singer
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Maybe you never went through the ringer
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Enough or loved it so you came out wrong

[Verse 6]
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Like a cracked bell I continue to tell
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The same sad tale and toll all my failures


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To hold any note or I quaver and cast
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About for the bluest port in a black and white
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Storm o I've got lots of advice
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Never listen to any advice
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Be a pole hoist your own flaming petard
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And when you blow blow hard
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