| The painted faces congregate in the mating season
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| To second homes, they go alone in no rush to leave them
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| And there’s a fountain and a scimitar-shaped yellow light
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| And it picks you up and cuts you down to size
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| When the people there and the furniture start to seem important
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| When a moment more, when you catch the floor
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| With a vivid and absorbent sharpened arc
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| Like the scimitar-shaped yellow light
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| That picks you up and cuts you down to size
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| Well, I had questions for the tap dancer sat on my lap
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| And she had child-proof caps on her answers
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| Stone blower, blow me a stone
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| And show me that handsome enhancer
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| She had a rock on her throttle
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| And a brown glass bottle full of shavings from the sun
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| Although those shoes affect your step
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| Don’t forget whose legs you’re on
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| And there’s a fountain and a scimitar-shaped yellow light
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| And it picks you up and it cuts you down to size |