| They came marching down the street in robes
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| In the spirit of the Spanish inquisition
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| Guitars and trombones
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| Mechanical monkeys make good musicians
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| Street urchins, the smugglers and dingos
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| Dead languages and living man’s lingos
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| Put the relics of a saint in a glass box
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| And march him around the block
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| Hangin' on the words of a mad man
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| Islands in the abyss
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| No use for the poet
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| When the hopeless seek no bliss
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| Mason jars of petroleum
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| You know those kids don’t play
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| And should you ever get a hold of them
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| I’ll tell you exactly what they’ll say:
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| «Time we told you son about the family curse»
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| And when they open up the diary to gain an explanation
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| They find only terminal verse
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| Hangin' on the words of a mad man
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| Islands in the abyss
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| No use for the poet
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| When the hopeless seek no bliss
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| X-ray visions, eye in the sky
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| And the naked being led by the blind
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| So bottoms up now, socrates
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| Hemloc straight up goes down easy
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| Hangin' on the words of a mad man
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| Islands in the abyss
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| No use for the poet
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| When the hopeless seek no bliss
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| X-ray visions, eye in the sky
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| The naked being led by the blind
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| So bottoms up now, socrates
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| Hemlock tastes like ripple wine
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| X-ray visions, eye in the sky
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| The naked being led by the blind
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| So bottoms up now, socrates
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| Hemloc straight up goes down easy |