History repeats the old conceits
The glib replies the same defeats
Keep your finger on important issues

With crocodile tears and a pocketful of tissues
I'm just the oily slick
On the windup world of the nervous tick

In a very fashionable hovel

I hang around dying to be tortured

You'll never be alone in the bone orchard
This battle with the bottle is nothing so novel


So in this almost empty gin palace
Through a two-way looking glass
You see your Alice


You know she has no sense
For all your jealousy

In a sense she still smiles very sweetly

Charged with insults and flattery

Her body moves with malice
Do you have to be so cruel to be callous


And now you find you fit this identikit completely
You say you have no secrets
And then leave discreetly


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I might make it California's fault

Be locked in Geneva's deepest vault
Just like the c!@#^s of Mars and the great barrier reef
I come to you beyond belief


My hands were clammy and cunning
She's been suitably stunning

But I know there's not a hope in Hades
All the laddies cat call and wolf whistle
So-called gentlemen and ladies

Dog fight like rose and thistle

I've got a feeling

I'm going to get a lot of grief
Once this seemed so appealing
Now I am beyond belief


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