We're standing around at the New Year's Eve party with the bridegroom, oh and we climb down the stairs where the actress is working the bedroom, ah and it's a way of saying Chorus: I'm coming down with a disease of too much wasting for one to fix It's the purpose of the world you would never know it sometimes, now sometimes Don't I make like it's easy to laugh in your face though I praise you for knowing how it's one thing to bitch you're so sick of this place it's quite another to be good another way of saying Repeat chorus. It's the purpose of the world but you would never know it sometimes, now sometimes (oooohhhh ahhhh) and you think we've got it now oh you think we've got it now the world's reach and the ordinary world do you think we've got it now?
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