Lordly Nightshade

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[Verse 1]
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Captured by Hitler with Oliver Twist in the tower
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Guards say: "Here's pens and paper, just sit down and work for an hour"
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O, Goodness, how can we escape? But it's not worthwhile
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  All I can do is smile.

[Bridge]
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Down gallons of glandular corridors of the dark castle
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The pompous old bellman is tolling one bell

[Verse 2]
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At bathtime the hippies in chains they are crossing the hall
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Where Hitler is making his new film about it all
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We slip trough a pew and escape but I just don't know
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  All I can do is grow

[Chorus]
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Tell me more, what then

[Verse 3]
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Down Main Street I go on a duffel-coat hoping instead
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For a little room, yawn, I'm so tired with this big bag of coal on my head
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It's a top hat I'm trying to sell or a lesson to learn
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  Vaguely seeking some fire to burn

[Bridge]
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While a group of middle-aged persons with dwarfish expressions and tinned conversations in 
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Sunday blessed blue

[Verse 4]
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Standing around for a photograph, watch the cuckoo
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Do you need any coal? But it doesn't appear that they do
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Then I offered my throat to the wolf but I just can't die
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  All I can do is fly

[Instrumental]
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[Chorus]
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Tell me more, what then

[Verse 5]
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Safe and secure in the skirts of the midsummer wood
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Cooking soup with stale words and fresh meanings it tastes so good
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The green wolf with his bunch of red roses is slinking away
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  All on a summer's day.