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The George Lazenby Tango
04:17
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They wear t-shirts with grass skirts
Pizza Huts they’re built with thatched roofs
Palm trees are swaying in the breeze
They stretch their arms and bend their knees
Exotic drinks made from the mango
Here, they dance the Gerorge Lazenby Tango.
You might only want one try
You might only want one dance
When you are done
Give the next guy a chance.
So long to my checkered past
You knew it wouldn’t last
Wasting time
In some dumb acting class.
It's now up to you to decide who's who
The better man with the better moves
A jungle variant fandango
And they dance the George Lazenby Tango.
You might only want one try
You might only want one dance
When you’re done
Just give the next guy a chance.
I’ve got a lot on my mind
Some things you just can’t sell
Peace and love and
Me and Emmanuelle.
So long to my checkered past
You knew it wouldn’t last
Wasting time
In some dumb acting class.
You might only want one try
You might only want one dance
When you’re done
Just give the next guy a chance.
They peel plantains with such elán
Potassium fuels like nothing else can
Palm oil keeps everything lubed
As they fall into the agency of groove.
He is the bond that holds them together
The glue that makes them birds of a feather.
Snakes in the trees shooting the breeze
the natives pump their fists and jangle keys
Their shaking stirs the spirit of the outsider
A license to thrill around the bonfire,
It’s The George Lazenby Tango
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Well, The Bundang Line is a mighty good road
The Bundang Line is the road to ride
If you wanna go
To Apgujeong Rodeo
Taken for granted
Yeah I know
It wasn’t my first rodeo
No second chances
Yeah I know
It wasn’t my first rodeo
But I know
What I was doing
I know
What you were doing
I know
What we were doing
I know
Nothin’ doin’
Subway nomads
Come and go
Apgujeong Rodeo
Shoving people
As they go
Apgujeong Rodeo
But I know
What I was doing
I know
What you were doing
I know
What we were doing
I know
Nothin’ doin’
How we’d surely love to see ya
Ave Oklahoma, ave Korea
How we’d surely love to see ya
Ave California, ave Korea
How we’d surely love to see ya
Ave Oklahoma, ave Korea
How we’d surely love to see ya
Ave Oklahoma, ave Korea
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Yeah, he first noticed it when he was shaving
Who was that face staring back?
Ummmm..starting to look familiar!
Then he saw a few old pictures in the family album
And everything started to become a little bit clearer
And it wasn’t good
It wasn’t something he wanted to know
Looking back was a bad man
Blood don’t lie
Dead ringer for a sinister man
He’s a dead ringer for a sinister man
A bad man with blood on his hands
He’s a dead ringer for a sinister man
Somewhere along the lines
His mouth got fixed into a scowl
Yeah, a familiar look
He’d seen it many times in the past
And now it was staring back at him in the mirror
Like a slow moving demonic possession
There’s the old man
Look out!
Dead ringer for a sinister man
He’s a dead ringer for a sinister man
A bad man with blood on his hands
He’s a dead ringer for a sinister man
Is there anything more annoying
Than looking in the mirror
And not liking what you see?
I guess that’s the advantage a vampire might have
Well, brothers and sisters
We can’t change genetics
All we can do is rise above.
Sing it, boys!
Dead ringer for a sinister man
He’s a dead ringer for a sinister man
A bad man with blood on his hands
He’s a dead ringer for a sinister man
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Walk Off the Indian
05:08
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Dumping tea into the harbor
Doesn’t make you a Founding Father
It just means you don’t want tea
Each lightning blast becomes a thing of the past
All storms will recede
And we walk, walk off the Indian
With TNT, like a hapless coyote
You blow the bridge like Kelly’s Heroes
So cartoonishly
And walk off the Indian
Walk off, walk off
All my life, all these treasures
Scattered here and there cheap pillow feathers
Carried on the whims of the wind
Like those helicopter seeds you see
Walk off, walk off
The despot, well he might die peaceful
Swimmers sometimes drown in streams
Coffee’d up with eyes wide shut
Asleep in the time machine
Walk off, walk off
Out in the canyon
Losing the daylight
A premonition to come
Thinking of this song
Walk off
I left a trail of my presence behind
Like the friction of a slug
With his belly on the ground
Grinding forward as though I planned it
And I don’t think that it was underhanded
But I still needed to walk off
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