Intro
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Oh, I can't say what qualifies as pain
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So transfixed by the wavering flame
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Mortal kings of each grade and grain erased
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Oh, I'm blessed
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The slant may rain, knows my door
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Tambourines my floor in four
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Laughs and shakes my folded face where Jesus mowed my
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lawn
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Fame has legs, blazing chrome
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Amputate but it's never quite gone
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Rakes in clover shown like snakes shine over rate my
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crime
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Why kill a man when you can drive him crazy?
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Why make it end when my amusement always depends on the joke?
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Won't you lend me my punchline
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As a favor, can you be entertained
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so that day I can savor whatever remains
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Of hurricanes too rattled to romance massive plates of circum-
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stances