| Welcome, my friends, to the show
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| Dance and drink if you’d like or sit back and take notes
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| It’s a fine night to test what you know
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| Who you fear, who you love, and who you cling to for hope
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| Hope
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| There’s a strange stifling smell in the air:
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| Cigarette smoke, perfume, and a tinge of despair
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| I guess we should all get prepared
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| Load your guns, take your pills, and start saying your prayers
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| Say your prayers
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| I promised that this wouldn’t happen to me
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| I’ve got scales grown over my eyes and I can’t see
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| If I falter as this moves along
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| Don’t you stop me to ask if there’s anything wrong
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| Your best bet’s to just move along
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| Throw my bones in the river and write me a song
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| Sing these songs, sing these songs
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| I promised that this wouldn’t happen to me
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| Now I’m stockpiling bullets and vitamin C
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| I promised that this wouldn’t happen to me
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| I’ve got scales grown over my eyes and I can’t see
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| Take the scales off my eyes I’m trying to see |