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Private Idaho

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Private Idaho

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Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo

You're living in your own Private Idaho

Living in your own Private Idaho

Underground like a wild potato

Don't go on the patio

Beware of the pool

Blue bottomless pool

It leads you straight

Right throught the gate

That opens on the pool

You're living in your own Private Idaho

You're living in your own Private Idaho

Keep off the path, beware the gate

Watch out for signs that say "hidden driveways"

Don't let the chlorine in your eyes

Blind you to the awful surprise

That's waitin' for you at

The bottom of the bottomless blue blue blue pool

You're livin in your own Private Idaho. Idaho

You're out of control, the rivers that roll

You fell into the water and down to Idaho

Get out of that state

Get out of that state you're in

You better beware

You're living in your own Private Idaho

You're living in your own Private Idaho

Keep off the patio

Keep off the path

The lawn may be green

But you better not be seen

Walkin' through the gate that leads you down

Down to a pool fraught with danger

Is a pool full of strangers

You're living in your own Private Idaho

Where do I go from here to a better state than this

Well, don't be blind to the big surprise

Swimming round and round like the deadly hand

Of a radium clock, at the bottom, of the pool

I-I-I-daho

I-I-I-daho

Woah oh oh woah oh oh woah oh oh

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

Get out of that state

Get out of that state

You're living in your own Private Idaho

Livin in your own Private.... Idaho

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