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The man in 119 takes his tea all alone.
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Mornings we all rise, to wireless Verdi cries.
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I'm hearing opera through the door.
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The souls of men and women,
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impassioned all.
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Their voices climb and fall;
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battle trumpets call.
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I fill the bath and climb inside,
singing
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la la la la la la
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la la la la la la
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He will not touch their pastry
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but every day they bring him more.
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Gold from the breakfast tray,
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I steal them all away
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and then go eat them on the shore.
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la la la la la la
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la la la la la la
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la la la la la la-la-la-la-la
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I draw a jackal-headed woman in the sand
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sing of a lover’s fate
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sealed by jealous hate and
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wash my hand in the sea.
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With just three days more I’d have
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just about learned the entire score
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to Aida.
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Ho-oh-olidays must end, as you know.
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All is memory,
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taken home with me:
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the opera, the stolen tea,
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the sand drawing, the virgin sea, all
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years ago.
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la la la la la la
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la la la la la la
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