Tonalidad: B minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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There was a time when I saw
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myself a flood- lit figure on the stage
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The Metropolitan Opera,
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the Daily Critic's latest rage
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But my voice went through a change
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about the same time as my skin
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Now the op era is gone and what
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is left is getting awfully thin
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Verse 2
There was a time when I saw myself
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a superstar upon the stage
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In someone's rock and roll opera,
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but then my throat began to age
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And I wound up working nights with
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afternoons when I'm awake
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So I watch the daily dramas as my life
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becomes a coffee break
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Verse 3
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Here's the story up to date
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Shirley's found another mate
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Though she'll wind up with
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her husband in the end
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But her husband's got no life
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He can't make it with his wife
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Though his secretary's more
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than just his friend
Verse 4
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It's a day- to- day routine and
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I watch the TV screen
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Letting Bob and Shirley
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live my life for me
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It's an opera made of soap using
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oth er people's hope
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And to morrow's show ain't
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soon enough for me
Verse 5
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There was a time when I saw myself
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a clean- cut cowboy on the screen
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A spurs- and- saddle horse opera,
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but that's a long- forgotten dream
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So I watch Let's Make a Deal
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and win the jackpot in my brain
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Then it's time to watch the show that's
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got my cerebellum half insane
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Verse 6
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Here's the story down to earth
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Shirley's finally given birth
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She's been carrying the
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baby for a year
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Though it don't belong to Bob
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Who's been fired from
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his job as a surgeon
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'Cause he's got this sudden fear
Verse 7
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He can't stand the sight of blood
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Meanwhile Shirley's mining Judd
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Who's the father of the kid
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but he won't give
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And tomorrow's show will say
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what they left out yesterday
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And that gives me one good reason I should live
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Interlude 1
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Here's the story
Verse 8
in a shell
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Bobby's mind is shot to hell
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'Cause he can't recall
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his name or how he feels
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He's a lost amnesiac
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While his wife is in the back of her station
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wagon notching up her heels
Verse 9
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Meanwhile Bob's assistant nurse
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has some poison in her purse
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And she's gonna slip into
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Shirley's soup
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Good old Judd thought up the scheme
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Good old Judd is Shirley's dream
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But old Judd don't want
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to share her chicken coop
Verse 10
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And the nurse would like to keep Shirley's
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body six feet deep in her grave
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And chase him to the Baltic Sea
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For she sees herself his wife to poor Bob
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Who's found a life as a farmer
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since he lost his memory
Verse 11
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So to give a resume
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Bobby's bailing up the hay
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While his wife is in the straw
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with Bill and Fred
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But she don't feel great inside
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It's that dose of cyanide that the nurse and
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Judd will feed her til she's dead
Verse 12
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There's a baby who just grew
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fifteen years in only two
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And she has her eyes on
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Judd who is her dad
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But of course she can't know that
She just knows just where it's at
As her mother says,
"It's good to be so glad"
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