Tom: C minor
Verse 1
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This is a nine- minute beat poem.
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It's called, "Storm"
Verse 2
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Inner North London, top floor flat,
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All white walls, white carpet, white cat,
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Rice paper partitions,
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modern art and am bition
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The host's a physician,
Bright bloke,
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His girlfriend's an actress,
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an old mate of ours from home
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And they're always great fun,
so to dinner we've come.
Verse 3
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The 5th guest is an unknown,
Gm
The hosts have just thrown us
together for a favour
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'Cause this girl's just
arrived from Australia
And she's the sister of someone or
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Cm
As we make introductions I'm
struck by her beauty
She's irrefutably fair with dark
eyes and dark hair
But as she sits,
I admit I'm a little bit wary
'Cause I notice the tip of
the wing of a fairy
Tattooed on that popular area just
above the derrière
And when she says "I'm
Sagittarian,"
I confess a pigeonhole starts to form
And is immediately filled with pigeon
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when she says her name is Storm.
Verse 5
Cm
Conversation is initially bright
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and light hearted
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But it's not long before Storm
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"You can't know anything,
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knowledge is merely opinion!"
She opines,
over her Cabernet Sauvignon,
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Vis- à- vis some un
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hippily empirical comment by me.
Verse 6
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"Not a good start" I think,
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We're only on pre- dinner drinks,
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my wife widens her eyes,
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Silently begs me: "Be nice!"
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Gm
A matrimonial warning,
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not worth ignoring
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So I resist the urge to ask Storm
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Whether knowledge is so loose-
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weave of a morning when
Deciding whether to leave her
apartment by the front door
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Or the window on her second floor.
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The food is delicious and Storm,
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Whilst avoiding all meat
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Slightly pissedly holds court on some
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Anachronistic aspect
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Gm
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When Storm suddenly
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"But the human body is a
mystery!"
"Science just falls in a hole when it
Tries to explain the the nature
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My hostess throws me a glance.
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I'll be off on one of my rare
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but fun rants but I shan't
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I just wanna enjoy the meal
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And al though Storm
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is starting to get my goat
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I have no intention of rocking
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Although it's becoming a bit of a wrestle
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Cm
Because like her meteorolo
gical namesake,
Storm has no such concerns
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"Pharmaceutical companies are the enemy,
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They promote drug dependency
at the cost of the natural remedies
That are all our bodies need
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They are im moral and driven by greed.
Why take drugs when herbs
can solve it?
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Why use chemicals when homeopathic
I think it's time we all
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Return- to- live with natural
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medical alternatives."
Verse 10
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D
a small crack appears in
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my diplomacy- dike.
"By definition," I begin,
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"Alternative medicine," I continue,
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"Has either not been proved to work,
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or been proved not to work.
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Do you know what they call
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Alternative medicine that's been
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Medicine."
Verse 11
Cm
"So you don't believe in any natural
remedies?"
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Cm
"On the contrary Storm, actually Before we came
Verse 12
to tea,
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I took a natural remedy derived
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from the bark of a willow tree
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A painkiller that's virtually
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It's got a weird name, darling,
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Gm
what was it again?
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M- masprin? Basprin? Oh
yeah! Asprin!
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Which I paid about a buck for down
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at the local drugstore.
Verse 13
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The debate briefly abates
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as my hosts collect plates
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But as they return with desserts
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"Shakespeare said it first:
There are more things in heaven and
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Earth than ex ist in your philosophy.
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Science is just how we're
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trained to look at reality,
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Cm
It doesn't explain love
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How does science explain psychic
The afterlife? The power of prayer?"
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I'm becoming aware that I'm
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staring,
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I'm like a rabbit
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Suddenly trapped in the blinding
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headlights of vacuous crap.
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Maybe it's the Hamlet she just
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Fm
misquothed
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Gm
Or the sixth glass of wine I just quaffed
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But my dip lomacy dike groans
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And the arsehole held back by its stone
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Fm
s can be held back no more:
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Bb
"Look, Storm, Sorry I don't mean
Verse 15
Cm
to bore you
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but there's no such thing as an aura!
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Reading Auras is like reading minds or
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Tea- leaves or star- signs
or meridian lines
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These people aren't applying a skill,
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Cm
They're either lying or mentally ill.
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Same goes for people who claim they
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hear God's demands
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And spiritual healers who
think they've magic hands.
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By the way, why
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Cm
F#m
do we think it's okay for
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can talk to the dead?
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Isn't that totally fucked in the head?
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Lying to some crying
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woman whose child has died
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And telling her you're in touch
with the other side?
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I think that's fundamentally sick
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Do we need to clarify here that there's
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no such thing as a psychic?
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What are we, fucking two?
Verse 17
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Do we actually think that
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Horton Heard a Who?
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Do we still believe that Santa
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brings us gifts?
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That Michael Jackson didn't
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Are we still so stunned by
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circus tricks that we think
That the dead would wanna talk
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to pricks like John Edwards?
Verse 18
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keeps firing off clichés
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With startling precision like a sniper using
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bollocks for ammunition
Verse 19
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"You're so sure of your position
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but you're just closed- minded
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I think you'll find that your
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faith in science and
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Tests is just as blind as the faith
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point,
let me think for a bit.
Oh wait, my mistake,
that's absolute bullshit.
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F#m
Science adjusts it's views
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based on what's observed.
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Faith is the denial of observation
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so that Belief can be preserved.
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If you show me that, say, homeopathy works,
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then I will change my mind
Adim
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I'll spin on a fucking dime
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I'll be embarrassed as hell,
But I will run through the streets yelling
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physics and bin it!
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And while it's memory of a long
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seems Infinite
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It somehow for gets all the poo
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it's had in it!'
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Cm
You show me that it works
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And when I've recovered
from the shock
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I will take a compass and carve 'Fancy
That' on the side of my cock."
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Everyone's just staring now,
But I'm pretty pissed and I've
dug this far down,
So I figure, in for penny,
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teries,
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yeah
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But there are an swers out there
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And they won't be found by
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people sitting around
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Looking serious and saying 'Isn't
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life mysterious?'
'Let's sit here and hope.
Let's call up the fucking Pope.
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Let's go watch Oprah interview
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Deepak Chopra.'
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If you wanna watch tele, you should
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watch Scooby Doo.
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That show was so cool
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because every time there
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Was a church with a ghoul or a
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They looked beneath the mask
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and what was inside?
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The fucking janitor or the dude
who ran the waterslide.
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Because throughout history every
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Mystery ever solved has turned out to be
Verse 25
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Does the idea that there might
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be knowledge frighten you?
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Does the idea that one afternoon on
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Wiki- fucking- pedia might
enlighten you frighten you?
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Does the notion that there may not be
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a supernatural so blow your
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Hippy noodle that you'd rather just
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Stand in the fog of your in
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this enough?
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Am
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Just this beautiful, complex,
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wonderfully unfathomable, natural world?
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How does it so fail to hold
our attention that we have to
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Diminish it with the invention of cheap,
man- made myths and monsters?
If you're so into your Shakespeare,
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lend me your ear:
to paint the lily,
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To throw perfume on the violet...
is just fucking silly"
Or what about Satchmo?!
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"I see trees of Green,
Red roses too,"
And fine, if you wish to glorify
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Krishna and Vishnu in a
Post- colonial,
Condescending bottled-
up and labeled
Kind of way then whatever, that's ok.
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But here's what gives me a hard- on:
I am a tiny, insignificant,
I have one life,
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and it is short and unimportant...
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But thanks to recent scientific
advances I get to live
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Twice as long as my great great great
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great uncleses and auntses.
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Twice as long to live this life of mine
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Twice as long to love this wife of mine
Twice as many years of friends and wine
Of sharing curries and getting
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shitty at good- looking hippies
With fairies on their spines
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and butterflies on their titties.
And if perchance I have offended
Think but this and all is
mended:
We'd as well be 10 minutes back in time,
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For all the chance you'll change your mind.
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