Loudon Wainwright III
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Final Frontier

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Final Frontier

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It's a silly, impractical word

Quite often it's rhymed with a bird

Or a thing on your hand

"all you need..." sang that band

Up over your head, there's a third

Silly, impractical word

And the number of letters is four

Such a big deal should have many more

Though "god" has just three

There's two in the word "me"

So i suppose less can be more

The number of letters is four

I thought that i had it when i was just in it

It became a battle, i could never win it

Each time i won it, i could never keep it

When called on to say it, i could never speak it

It's a vague and a meaningless word

As an idea, completely absurd

It's been sung and said

It's been written in read

It's a fairy tale ending deferred

A vague and a meaningless word

Back at the final frontier

This boarder that's guarded with fear

Fifty years and more

Waging this boarder war

It's a miracle you made it here

Back to the final frontier

I thought that i had it when i was just in it

It became a battle, i could never win it

Each time i won it, i could never keep it

When called on to say it, i could never speak it

Back at the final frontier

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