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The most important thing |
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That we've ever learned |
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The most important thing we've learned |
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As far as children are concerned |
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Is never, never let them near |
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The television set |
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Or better still |
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Just don't install the idiotic thing at all |
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(Ahh, ahh, never, never let them, |
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ahh, ahh, never, never let them, |
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ahh, ahh...) |
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(Ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh...) |
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It rots the senses in the head |
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It keeps imagination dead |
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It clogs and clutters up the mind |
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It makes a child so dull and blind |
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(So dull, so dull) |
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He can no longer understand |
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A fairytale, a fairyland |
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(A fairyland, a fairyland) |
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His brain becomes as soft as cheese |
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His thinking powers rust and freeze |
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He cannot think, he only sees |
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(He only sees, he only sees) |
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Regarding little Mike Teavee, |
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We very much regret that we |
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(Regret that we) |
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Shall simply have to wait and see |
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(We'll wait and see, |
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We'll wait and see, |
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We'll wait and see, |
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We'll wait and see, |
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We'll wait and see...) |
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We very much regret that we |
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Shall simply have to wait and see |
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If we can get him back to size |
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But if we can't... |
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It serves him right. |