Key: B
Introduction:
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The finches and sparrows build nests in my chimney
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what remains of the small flightless birds that you failed to protect
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but their yolk isn't easy in fact it's a drag
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as they're blowing through cornfields and mountains of rags
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all over the suburbs across the great lawns
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crop-dusting gardens all over this town
(refrão)
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but nobody cares when it gets in their hair
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it gets in their lungs as it floats through the air
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it gets in the food that they buy and prepare
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but nobody cares when it gets in their hair
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across the great chasms and schisms and the sudden aneurisms
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where the black ink will drip across the crespice of your eyes
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and your teeth are worth more than you can spare-
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-oh don't tell me that it just isn't fair
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don't speak about the cycles of life 'cause your thoughts are so soft
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I could cut 'em with a spork or a bride's kniii-i-fe
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and the wine made our mouths too loose
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such a reckless choice of words
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when you tell me that I'm too "abstruse"
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I just thought it was a kind of bird
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(I swear) I just stood there
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not saying a word
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not saying a word
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not saying a word