I walk into the corner of my room,
See my friends in high places
I don't know which is which and whom is whom,
They've stolen each other's faces
Janet is there with her high-hatting hair
Full of bedroom feathers
Janet is known to make dead men groan
In any kind of weathers
I crawl over to her, I say: «hey baby, I say hey Janet
You are the one, you are the sun
And I'm your dutyfull planet»
But she ain't down with any of that,
She's heard that shit before
I say: «ah ha, oh yeah, you're right»,
Cause I see Betty X standing by the door
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And it's getting strange in here
Yeah, it gets stranger every year
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Now, Betty X is
like Betty Y minus that fatal chromosome
Her hair is like the wine dark sea,
On which sailors come home
I say: «hey baby, I say hey Betty X
(I lean close up to her throat)
This light you're carrying is like a lamp,
Hanging from a distant boatt»
«It is my light»—said Betty X,
Betty X says: «This light ain't yours»
And so much wind blew through her words
That I went rolling down the hall
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I turn another corner, I go down a corridor
And I see this guy
He must be about 100 foot tall
And he only has one eye
He asks me for my autograph,
I write «nobody» and then
I wrap myself up in my woolly coat
And blind him with my pen
Cause someone must have put something
In my drink, everything getting strange looking
Half the people had turned into squealing pigs,
The other half were cooking
«Let me out of here»— I cried,
And I went pushing past
And I saw miss Polly singing with some girls,
I cried:«Strap me to the mast»
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Then a black girl with no clothes on danced
Across the room
We charted the progress of the planets
Around that boogie-woogie moon
I called her my nubian princess,
I gave her some sweet-back bad-ass jive
I spent the next seven years between her legs
Pining for my wife
But by and by it all went wrong,
I felt all washed-up on the shore
She stared down at me from up in the storm
As I sobbed upon the floor
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Here comes Alina with two black eyes,
She's given herself a transfusion
She's filled herself with panda blood
To avoid all the confusion
I said the sun rises and falls with you,
And various things about love
But a rising violence in me
Cut all my circuits off
Well, Alina, she starts screaming,
Her cheeks are full of psychotropic leaves
Her extinction was nearly absolute
When she turned her back on me
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I bumped bang crash into Deanna
Hanging pretty in the door frame
Alle the horrors which have befallen me, well,
Deanna is to blame
Every time I see you, babe,
You make me feel so all alone
And I wept my face into her dress
Long after she'd gone home
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Don't it make you feel so sad,
Don't the blood rush to your feet
To think that everything you do today,
Tomorrow is obsolete?
Technology and women and little children too
Don't it make you feel blue?
Don't it make you feel blue?
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Well, I've gotta say
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye