| Welcome to this wonderworld
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| Everybody take your sledges
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| Winterland Plutocracy
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| Down the slope don’t fear the hedges
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| Everybody in their box
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| Waiting under rights of action
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| Raise your heads and hold your breath
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| I can’t stand your putrefaction
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| I can smell your brain decay
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| As you look down at the stage and
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| Drive me mad and then insane
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| Welcome to the show
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| You’ve been waiting for the one
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| To bring your joy and ecstasy
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| And you’ve been waiting for a song
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| And you demand to feel the tragedy
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| But when it’s right out of control
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| And it’s not your song anymore
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| And you are ready to forget
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| The truth that you’d been asking for
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| I’m not afraid to sacrifice
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| And I don’t care bout your advice
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| As I spread my wings and fly
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| No love — it’s pain you’ve come to feed
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| In mental strain I crawl and bleed
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| You make me please
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| Forever roaming
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| You will hear it scream
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| The cries of Speedhoven
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| Forever roaming
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| Every starless night
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| You will hear the cries
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| You’ll never get:
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| I’ll never be the one that you want me to be
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| And all the treasures that you hold
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| All your diamond rings and gold
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| All your flake and look and tongue
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| I have tried and it was wrong
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| You tried to push me up a notch
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| But all I made was an itchy crotch
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| Fornication, ass galore
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| I wanted love and I want more
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| Muckrakers waiting for the prey
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| Muckrakers want me to obey
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| But you will never own me
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| Though you pay
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| This opera is haunted they will say
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| That’s where they’ve driven the light insane
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| Forever roaming
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| You will hear it scream
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| The cries of Speedhoven
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| Forever roaming
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| Every starless night
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| You will hear the cries
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| In a cold winter night I had a vision
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| Taking me by my hand
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| Leading me to the door
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| To rescue me from the wastelands
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| The glance of the shining ivories
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| A world that they can’t understand
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| Out of sound, out of reason
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| The voice of their laughter was gone
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| Taken away, time for a change
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| I’m walking over
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| Flying away, flying away
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| Dying into another world
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| Pure and divine
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| And the laughter dies
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| Welcome to this wonderworld
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| Everybody take your sledges
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| Winterland Plutocracy
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| Down the slope don’t fear the hedges
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| Forever roaming
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| You will hear it scream
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| The cries of Speedhoven
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| Forever roaming
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| Every starless night
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| You will hear the cries |