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What lovely people, they get it all
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They know the reason but not the trick
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They peer behind shutters long grown old
They always hit you with big questions
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Then they carve you like a diamond
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They wait for you to crumble so they can tell the others
We should all just stay silent
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Don't pay heed even to your brothers
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Speak very softly in a low voice
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Look at Jesus, they put him on the cross
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Like it or not you have to do this
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What lovely people, they get it all
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They know the reason but not the trick
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They've got pistols loaded with malice
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We should load them with blanks
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And make all those daggers out of rubber
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Because if you turn for just an instant
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You find them stuck in your back
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Like it or not you have to do this
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Standing here in my place I'll sing
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For instance sometimes I prefer the madmen
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Because they say what they think
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And won't take blackmail or compromise
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They don't blend in with the others
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For better or worse they stay themselves
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Don't settle for staying on the surface
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Instead dig deep past the root and appearances
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Love me for what I really am
And I'll stay with you forever