Did you get the invitation?
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The swan song of a nation,
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Everyone's waiting for you inside.
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We got soda pop and hickory stills.
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Quinn the Eskimo in espadrilles,
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And Sally makin' you feel all right.
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The baroness and her bayonets,
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The mad hatter hedging bets,
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Against the good judgment of the swinging king.
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It's the fall of the American empire,
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But don't you worry honey you didn't miss a thing.
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Juiced up dignitaries getting' loose like Thelonious did,
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We got our own sanctimonious kid,
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And he can suck the diamond off a diamond ring.
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Just send in the farmers in the National Guard,
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We'll be in the war room gettin' hard,
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Just wear your dress blues you know you look so damn dashing.
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Don't be shy, Sally won't bite you,
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'Cause she got her pants on fire,
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And she got a rabbit baby calling your name.
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Fall of the American empire,
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It should've been all right,
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Should've, should've.
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But me, I'm just working a sound bite,
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Just rolling my smokes tight.
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You know they said it was all right, all right, all right.
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'Cause Lucy's in the nude,
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With nothing left to lose,
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Except them thigh-high kiss the sky American boots.
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Sally got dirty with a senator's son,
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You know the one from Massachusetts,
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She was pleased to come his advances,
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For he was a man of wealth and taste.
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But she got so cut up by the man who would not stop.
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Thought all she needed was love,
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But it was like nothing she thought,
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And when Lucy came to get her,
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In the corner she lay.
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It's the fall of the American empire,
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It should've been all right,
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Should've, should've.
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But me, I'm just working a sound bite,
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Just rolling my smokes tight.
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You know they said it was all right, all right, all right, all right, all right.
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Where you going Mr. Holy?
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All right, all right, all right
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Say where you going Mr. Holy?
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Lucy girl I found your diamonds,
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They shine like sirens,
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Singing from the shoals of buzzard's bay.
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It's worse than we know,
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How I wish it wasn't so,
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That all tomorrow's parties have gone away.
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Fall (all in for the fall) of the American empire,
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They said you would never go away.
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Fall (all in for the fall) of the American empire,
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Lucy girl can't you just stay?
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Fall Of The American Empire
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