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Royal Jelly
Dewey Cox
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Royal Jelly, Capo on 7th
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Mailboxes drip like lampposts in the twisted birth canal of the coliseum
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Rim job fairy teapots mask the temper tantrum
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O' say can you see 'em
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Stuffed cabbage is the darling of the Laundromat
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'N the sorority mascot sat with the lumberjack
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Pressing passing stinging half synthetic fabrication of his-- Time
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The mouse with the overbite explained how the rabbits were ensnared
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'N the skinny scanty sylph trashed the apothecary diplomat
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Inside the three-eyed monkey within inches of his toaster oven life
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In my mind
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I'm half blind
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My inner ref
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Is mostly deaf
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I'm smell impaired
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If you cared
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My sense of taste is wasted on the phosphorescent orange peels of San
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Francisco axe-encrusted frenzy
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So let me touch you
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Let me touch you
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Let me touch you
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Where the Ro-yal Jelly gets made
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Coleratura singers bringing weeds and social clingers
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Hangers-on and fancy flingers
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To the dress ball
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Mushrooms and bowling pins
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Stove pipe hats and other things I can't recall
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From Juvenile hall
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We're so unlucky and stuff
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Woodrow Wilson never had it so tough
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Dairy Queen and Vaseline and Maybelline
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Paul Bunyan and James Dean
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Allegory agencies of pre-Raphaelite paganry
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And Shenandoah tapestries
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Compared with good mahogany
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Collapsing the undying postcard romance
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With feline perspicacity
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By the university
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That night I held a paucity
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Which you deemed common courtesy
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I wasn't what you thought I'd be
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I shouldn't have invited you to dance
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In my tree
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I'm halfway free
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And in my chair
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One quarter there
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In my dream
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One-sixteenth cream
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In the coffee of the Courtier
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Of the sycophant assistant to the king
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So let me touch you
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Let me touch you
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Where the Ro - - - - - - - yal Jelly gets made
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