black midi - Marlene Dietrich

[Verse]
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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

[Verse]
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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!’

[Verse]
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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

[Outro]
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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