Key: G major
Verse 1
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Well,
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here are a few simple admonitions for young and old.
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Never in terfere in a boy
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and girl fight.
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Beware of whores who say
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The hell they do.
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What they mean is they want more money,
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If you're doing business with a religious son of a bitch,
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get it in writing.
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His word isn't worth shit, not with a good lord telling
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him how to fuck you on the deal.
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Words of advice for young people.
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If, after having been exposed
to someone's presence,
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you feel as if you lost a quart of plasma,
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avoid that presence.
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You need it like you need
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Don't like to hear the word vampire around here,
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trying to improve our public image.
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Build up a kindly, a buncular,
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benevolent image.
key word.
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Enlightened interdependence.
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Life in all its rich variety,
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take a little, leave a little.
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of the vampiric process,
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they always take more than they need.
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Now, some of humankind are the devil's bargain,
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Any old soul is worth saving at least to a priest,
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but not every soul is worth buying.
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So you can take the offer
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as a compliment.
They charge the easy ones first, you know,
like money, all the money there is.
Yeah, but who wants to be the richest
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guy in some cemetery?
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Money won't buy anything.
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Not much left to spend it on, eh,
Gramps?
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Gettin' too old to cut the mustard
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Well, time hits the hardest blows
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Especially below the belt
Gramps?
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Now you see it, now you don't
Haven't you forgotten somethin',
Gramps?
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In order to feel somethin'
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You have to pee there
You have to pee,
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A .T.
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Old fool sold his soul
for a strap -on
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Words of advice for young people
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