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From the courtyard, |
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I floated inand watched it go down. |
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Heard the cup drop;thought, "Well,that's why they keep them around." |
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The blackguard sat hard, down,with no head on him now,and |
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I felt so bad,cause |
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I didn't know howto feel bad enoughto make him proud. |
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By the time you read this, |
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I will be so far away. |
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Daddy longlegs, how in the worldam |
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I to be expected to stay? |
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In the night--in the night, you may hear me call |
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Pa, stay your handand steel your resolve. |
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Stay where you are,so long and tall. |
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Here's Lola--ta da!--to doher famous |
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Spider Dance for you! |
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Lighten up your pockets! |
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Shake her skirts and scatter, there,a shrieking, six-legged millionairewith a blight in his sockets. |
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Miss Montez,the |
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Countess of |
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Lansfeld,appealed to the |
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King of Bavaria,saying, "Pretty papa,if you are my friend--mister daddy longlegs, they are at it again!--Can I see you?" |
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Poor Lola! |
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A tarantula's mounting |
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Countess Lansfeld'shandsome brassiere,while they all cheer. |
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And the old king fell from grace,while |
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Lola fled, |
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To save face and her career |
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You caught a fly, floating by, |
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Wait for him to drown in the dust;drown in the dust of other flies,whereby the machine is run,and the deed is done. |
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Heaven has no wordfor the way you and your friendshave treated poor |
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Louis.May god save your poor soul, |
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Lola.(But there is nothing I adore,apart from that whore's black heart.) |
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Well, doesn't that just beat all! |
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Miss Gilbert,called to |
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Castlemaineby the silver dollar and the gold glitter! |
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Well, I've seen lots,but never, in a million years,would think to see you, here. |
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Though the long roadbegins and ends with you, |
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I cannot seem to make amendswith you, |
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Louis.When we go out,they're bound to see you with me. |
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At night, |
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I walk in the park,with a whip,between the linesof the whispering |
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Jesuits,who are poisoning you against me. |
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There's a big black spiderhanging over my door. |
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Can't go anywhere, anymore. |
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Tell me, are you with me? |
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I called to you, several times,while the change took placeand then arrived, all night,and |
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I died.But all these songs,when you and |
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I are long gone,will carry on. |
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Mud in your eye. |
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You asked my hand,hired a band."In your heart is all that you need;ask and you will receive," it is said. |
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I threw my bouquet,and |
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I knocked 'em dead. |
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Bottle of white, bottle of red. |
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Helpless as a child,when you held me in your arms,and |
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I knew that no othercould ever love me as you loved. |
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But help me! |
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I'm leaving! |
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I remember everything,down to the sound of you shaving--the scrape of your razor,the dully-abrading black hairthat remainedwhen you clutched at me,that night |
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I came upstairs, half-dead,and, in your kindness,you put me straightawayin the cupboard,with a bottle of champagne,and then, later, on a train. |
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It was dark out, |
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I was half-dead. |
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I saw a star fall into the sky,like a chunk of thrown coal,as if god himself spatlike a cornered rat. |
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I really want you to do this for me,will you have one on me? |
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It was dark; |
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I was drunk and half-dead,and we slept, knocking heads,sitting up in the star-smoking air,knocking heads like buoys. |
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Don't you worry for me! |
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Have one on me! |
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Meanwhile, |
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I will raise my own glassto how you made me fastand expendable,and |
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I will drink to your excellent health,and your cruelty. |
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Will you have one on me?--helpless as a child,when you held me in your arms,and |
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I knew that no othercould ever love me-- |
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From the courtyard, |
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I floated inand watched it go down. |
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Heard the cup drop;thought, "Well, that's whythey keep them around." |
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The blackguard sat hard, down,with no head on him now,and |
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I felt so bad,cause |
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I didn't know howto feel bad enoughto make him proud. |
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Well daddy longlegs, are you? |
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Daddy longlegs, are you? |
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Daddy longlegs, are you proud? |
