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Mermaids And Slaves

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Mermaids And Slaves

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Baby lets drink and drive

Baby lets drink and drive,

Drink till the conversation turns pink

and drive to the other side

Baby lets look and learn

Baby lets look and learn

Look till a certain feeling takes hold

and learn when the ready(?) is burned

Let's fool and coerce, the singer of verse, died of insufferable pain

Let's fuel the dream every Buckley or Dean was genius, misjudged or insane

Let's drive over cliff that maybe a riff

Maybe a rift as cursed as the whole of our days

Lets put out to sea poor you and poor me,

poor you and poor me on the rocks that crush mermaids and slaves

Baby lets duck and dive

Baby lets duck and dive

I duck till a major change in our luck

and dive if we wanna survive

Baby lets hit and run

Baby lets hit and run

Hit till you see the split of their lip

And run like the wind to the sun

Let's wrap up that notion that selling is potion, that greed is a good way to die

Take tragic mistake and crash into lake and sell it to folk passing by

Let's drive over cliff that maybe a riff

That maybe a rift as cursed as the whole of our days

Lets put out to sea poor you and poor me,

Poor you and poor me on the rocks that crush mermaids and slaves

(Instrumental Break)

Let's drive over cliff that maybe a riff

That maybe a rift as cursed as the whole of our days

Lets put out to sea poor you and poor me,

Poor you and poor me on the rocks that crush mermaids and slaves

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