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I've got an idea, let's play a game |
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Okay everybody listen |
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At a fancy event where they all put on airs |
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Or they're standing around with their frozen stares |
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What lightens the night and the burden one bears |
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Is a game of musical chairs |
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When the party drags on, no one plays, no one cheers |
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When the guest start to leave or just sit on the stairs |
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Before they're asleep like a bunch old bears |
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Start a game of musical chairs |
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Line up the chairs and find all your friends |
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Someone stops the music |
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And you must be sitting or else you're out |
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That's what musical chairs is all about |
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Skip, dance, parade or prance |
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The chances are you'll win |
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If an empty chair is right there |
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Where you could plop right in |
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Walk sing do anything |
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Try spinning round like tops |
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Just be right there by an empty chair |
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When the music stops |
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Each time there is one less chair |
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There's one less playing too |
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But if you're not late and you concentrate |
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It won't be you |
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You mustn't blink 'cause in a wink |
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You'll see how the whole game can change |
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If you're still standing when the music's through |
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You do look strange |
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Find a chair, the music could stop at any moment |
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You never know if fast or slow |
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Will win you the prize |
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Just listen closely and just hope mostly |
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There's no surprise |
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Faster the music plays |
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The one who stays around |
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Is the one who hits the chair when he sits |
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And not the ground |
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Where did the chairs all go |
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Almost no place to sit |
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Wait, there's still one chair |
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Can you make it there? Better get to it |
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Oh no, she's got it, whoa, she slipped |
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He tripped, who's in? |
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But there's something wrong, they've stopped the song |
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You're sitting, she's quitting |
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You're the last one with the chair, you win |