black midi – Marlene Dietrich (Guitar)

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    Under soft lights

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With a taped back face

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Our soft spoken queen

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Takes her place on the stage

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As the big curtains open

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The last troops run in quick

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For the one and only

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Marlene Dietrich

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  She whispers Demurely

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'from The Blue Angel'

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The song we all know

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The one that we've paid for

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Fills the hall tight

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And pulls at our hearts

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And puts in her place

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The girl she once was

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In that suit of '33

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Soundtracked by disapproving commentary

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And my shuddering neighbour

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Turns and roughly rouses me

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He says, 'While a kiss on the lips may not make a frog a prince

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An orgasm renders any queen a witch: metamorphosis exists!'

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Damn all us idiots

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Damn us till death

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Relentlessly trying to untie our knots of

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Rivers and roads that defy all sense

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But her hands loosen all

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And her voice brings you youth

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Her cheeks cradle the holy breath

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That pumps the lungs of her Mackie Messer, ooh

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And she beats the heart of her Mackie Messer, ooh

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And she walks the stage with her Mackie Messer, ooh

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And she makes us smile with her Mackie Messer, ooh