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At the Vice & Virtue Ministry You'll earn your etiquette degree Climb the ranks and join us here amongst the bourgeoisie We all laugh endlessly Extend our pinkies when we drink and thumb our noses at the lower classes in the penny seats You'll move up socially fall in love with aristocracy wear the right clothes say the right things then you just might meet the Queen We'll have our guests to tea play croquet on the greens wear out monocles quote articles from Tennyson and Keats Spend our days at Gay soirees and wave from royal parades Spend our evenings Counting earnings Yachting down the Thames At the Vice & Virtue Ministry You'll earn your etiquette degree Climb the ranks and join us here amongst the bourgeoisie We all laugh endlessly Extend our pinkies when we drink and thumb our noses at the lower classes in the penny seats Spend our days at Gay soirees and wave from royal parades Spend our evenings Counting earnings Yachting down the ThamesLyrics:
Mr. Gray go away cause you're always stuck in traffic and can't kick this nasty habit being late everyday Don't delay Mr. Gray cause he lost the family business after what got said last Christmas holiday What'd he say? Even Mr. Gray looks to the summer sky and he wonders what it's all about quickly turns his head to the ground and he walks and he frowns when he talks at his shoes and his socks Mr. Gray I must say If you make up all your stories why do you make them so boring anyway? Mr. Gray College days always seem so far away and yet they should be cause they are so far away It's a shame And even Mr. Gray one time was interesting and he had something relevant to say now he sits alone in his chair and he waits for his hair to turn gray and he curses his fate Hip hooray for Mr. Gray We're so glad you've gone away We're all glad the stories over...over Hip hooray for Mr. Gray We're so glad he's gone away He got fired now he's tired, so tiredLyrics:
We had a house out in the 'burbs I made my way up through the firm Kept the yard nice and pristine and picture perfect so it seemed Our welcome matte laid on the floor we hung a wreath up on the door but then that letter came unwarned now perfect isn't very perfect anymore We packed our things up in the car I never shook so very hard searched the sky for signs of sun and life had quickly come undone My wife was crying softly and the tear stained letter in her hand cut us both down to the core now perfect isn't very perfect No, perfect isn't quite the word for it Perfect isn't very perfect Anymore...Lyrics:
If you were mine then I'd write poetry all day and every night If you were mine the seas would part and all the stars would soon align If you were mine we'd lay awake and wrap our legs like cypress vines If you were mine then I'd read Kierkegaard to make you think I'm bright If you were mine we'd talk profusely about European wines If you were mine and lived in Wales I'd set the clocks to Greenwich time If you were mine I'd carve wax wings and fly directly towards the sun If you were mine We'd make Marquis de Sad look like a frigid nun Who waxed the floors and opened the trap doors? Because I'm falling It's not as if you'd ever call me but now and then you could acknowledge I exist I'd be your pièce de résistance We'd sit for days on porch swings make hearts and rusted bed springs sing in three-four time If you were mine If you were mine I'd sleep outside your door through torrential rain falls If you were mine then I'd stuff thank you cards into the wailing wall If you were mine we'd die poetic deaths like in Greek tragic plays If you were mine they'd turn our funeral into a holiday Who waxed the floors and opened the trap doors? Because I'm falling It's not as if you'd ever call me but now and then you could acknowledge I exist I'd be your pièce de résistance We'd sit for days on porch swings make hearts and rusted bed springs sing in three-four time If you were mineLyrics:
Dogs and cats are speaking Portuguese and the pipes are leaking piles and piles of laundry and credit cards all expire what timing and all of the garage doors open in perfect synchronicity and all of the washers and driers take on personalities of you and me you and me la la la, lala la la la, lala la la la She's frantically writing thank you cards for her friends and family people line the curb smiling all shaking hands and saying their goodbye's and all of the mailboxes here are full to capacity everyone's license to drive expires eventually so do we so do we la la la, lala la la la, lala la la laLyrics:
Begin with step one Let's assemble your new gun count the pieces til there's none we'll use them all before we're done Make sure the bolt is clean attach it to the firing pin lube the bore and check the springs Is the hammer functioning for your proper assembly? Take care the chambers free to avoid an injury thread the breach plug clear debris it's as easy as 1-2-3 With the safety locked affix the trigger to the stock undo the ramrod, pull it off and keep a close eye on the clock don't let this thing go off half cocked We all get hurt and we all get up and we all move on yeah we all move onLyrics:
We use to waltz outside before the war beneath the stars we'd spin around the floor and every morning watch the soldiers leave in rows lined up like perfect bowling pins and here, it's just like a costume ball with lights out and masks on the air is thicker than London's fog Ida...don't wait up... We used to sleep at night before the war hum to Strauss and never lock the doors but ships were sunk and someone took the fall and strung us out like useless paper dolls and here, alarm clocks are cannonballs while Judas laughs and, morphine calls the air is thicker than London's fog Ida...don't wait up...Lyrics:
I'm the only one standing in the way of total chaos total chaos anyone who says fifteen ounces makes a pound must be put down cause a pound is pound and a gallon's a gallon Don't hesitate to calibrate your dispensing machines or underestimate the importance of Weights, weights and measures Weights, weights and measures Am I the only one left that care about knobs and gauges? clocks and gauges? the public relies on all my snap decisions of precision English or metric gas and electric Don't hesitate to calibrate your expensive machines and I'll reiterate the importance of Weights, weights and measures Weights, weights and measures People all try to be much more clever than the other People all try for nothing more than extra silver dollars I'm the only one standing in the way of total chaos total chaos anyone who says fifteen ounces makes a pound must be put down cause a pound is pound and a gallon's a gallon Don't hesitate to calibrate your expensive machines and I'll reiterate the importance of Weights, weights and measures Weights, weights and measuresLyrics:
She orders sex and valium from internet Ukrainians who found their niche in medicine and porn He watches sports from satellites that circle round the earth all night and gets his news in short sound bites at home They fell in love in 1965 and promptly had three children at their side and life was very fine 'til love left in '69 She reads her bible every night and highlights passages that might remind her that an afterlife is near He unplugs his fathers life support for love, and for the will of course that sets aside around two-thirds for him They fell in love in 1965 and promptly had three children at their side and life was very fine 'til love left in '69 She orders sex and valium