An Oddity On Mars

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It's a god-awful small affair to the girl with the mousy hair
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But her mother is yelling "No" and her father as told her to go
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But her friend is nowhere to be seen
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as she walks through her sunken dream
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To the seat with the clearest view
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and she's hooked to the silver screen
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But the film is a saddening bore
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For she's lived it ten times or more
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She could spit in the eyes of fools as they ask her to focus on

CHORUS:
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Sailors, fighting in the dance hall
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Oh man! look at those cavemen go,    it's a freakest show
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Take a look at the Lawman, beating up the wrong guy
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Oh man!  Wonder if he'll ever know   he's in the best selling show
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Is there life on Mars?

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Ground control to Major Tom Ground control to Major Tom:
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Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
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Ground control to Major Tom: Commencing countdown engine's on
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Check ig-nition and may God's love be with you

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This is ground control to Major Tom, you've really made the grade!
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And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear,
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now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

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It's on Amerika's tortured brow Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
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Now the workers have struck for fame Cause Lennon's on sale again
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See the mice in their million hordes
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From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
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Rule Brittania is out of bounds
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To my mother, my dog and clowns
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But the film is a saddening bore
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`Cause I wrote it ten times before
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It's about to be writ again As I ask you to focus 'cuz

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This is Major Tom to ground con-trol, I'm stepping through the door
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And I'm floating in the most peculiar way
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and the stars look very different today