Tumbling Down
Steve Harley
[Verse 1]
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Gee, but it's hard when one lowers one's guard to the vultures
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Now me I regard it's a torturous hardship that smoulders
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Like a peppermint eaten away
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Will I fight, will I swagger or sway?
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Hee hee, my lady, she cries like a baby to scolders
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See her tumbling down
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Tumbling down
[Verse 2]
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Hail to the monkey, we're having a funky reunion
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Wasted and sunk, he can only have Sunday communion
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He got nicotine stains in his eyes
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He got nothing to protect but his pride
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Oh! smother the kiss or be drownded in blissful confusion
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See it tumbling down
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Tumbling down
[Verse 3]
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Juvenile tale, see the Titanic sail into Brighton
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The Hemingway stacatto, the tragic bravado can frighten.
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To be here there and everywhere’s fine
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But do you have to be so swift all the time?
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Deliver the dawn to the Moulin Rouge on the horizon
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Watch it tumbling down
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Tumbling down (Repeat)
[Verse 4]
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Our dear, look what they’ve done to the blues, blues, blues
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Our dear, look what they’ve done to the blues, blues, blues
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Our dear, look what they’ve done to the blues, blues, blues
Repeat till bored
