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(TARQUINIUS) - O Dr Faust I've got a pain |
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Where I sit on the throne |
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Where an Englishman's home is his kingdom |
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(FAUST) - Mr Tarquinius of Romford |
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You've got blue blood on the brain |
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But I know a Roman sanatorium |
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Where they'll cure you with a story |
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From 2500 years ago: |
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The Rape of Lucretia |
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(TARQUINIUS) - O Dr Faust |
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Abroad I shall not go |
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The past, so they say, is a foreign country |
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And abroad equally |
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(FAUST) - Mr Tarquinius of Romford |
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Since you stubbornly insist |
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I'll administer the history of democracy |
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Beginning when a woman was done by the son of the king: |
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The Rape of Lucretia |
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Romulus and Remus |
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Orphans of the forest |
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Grow to their majority |
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Throw up their hands in horror |
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The democratic gesture |
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When Sextus puts his Sextus where no king should he |
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Singing "We who are about to die salute thee!" |
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The Rape of Lucretia |
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(TARQUINIUS) - O Dr Faust |
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I should've guessed |
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That a doctor named after the self-confessed lover |
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Of Mephistopheles would say "Take two of these after meals" |
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And mean leeches - for all your fine speeches |
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Your anthem is "Where the beast sucks there suck I" |
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(FAUST) - Mr Tarquinius of Romford |
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You may set your mind at rest |
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My soul's not with the devil but the NHS |
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And although I am loathe to |
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I've taken an oath to |
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Cure people like you who think SPQR stands for |
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"Sense Prevents the Queen's Removal" |
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The Rape of Lucretia |
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Romulus and Remus |
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Orphans of the forest |
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Grow to their majority |
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Throw up their hands in horror |
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The democratic gesture |
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When Sextus puts his Sextus where no king should he |
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Singing "We who are about to die salute thee!" |
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The Rape of Lucretia |
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Romulus and Remus |
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May your example lead us |
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Your brotherhood and merit be our guiding force |
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You ushered in democracy, you understood that monarchy |
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Stands by incest, falls by sexual intercourse |
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We'll be singing: "We who are about to die salute thee!" |
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The Rape of Lucretia |
