Permutation Child

BPM: 126 
 
Intro 
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[Verso 1]
 
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I have three dolls and I love them tenderly, 
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Sapphire, Sugarplum, and Tangerine, 
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They live in a cottage of marbles and emeralds, 
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In the draw of the cupboard in the room where I dream. 
 


[Verso 2]
 
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My name is Candy and my daddy is a scientist, 
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Sapphire, Sugarplum, and Tangerine, 
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He looks like a lobster and laughs like a bullfrog, 
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Says when I grow up I shall be a queen. 
 


[Verso 3]
 
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I live in a country called Pandemonium, 
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Sapphire, Sugarplum, and Tangerine, 
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There's ogres and there's giants and there's trolls and monsters, 
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And witches with faces that are bright green. 
 

Interlude 
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[Verso 4]
 
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I like to dress up my three little playing mates, 
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Sapphire, Sugarplum, and Tangerine, 
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But I cry sometimes for I have no fingers, 
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And I have to eat my dinner behind a screen. 
 

Interlude 
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[Verso 5]
 
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My daddy says I mustn't make a fuse about my hands, 
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Sapphire, Sugarplum, and Tangerine, 
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Cuz there's children next door, without legs or arms, 
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And at night I can sometimes hear their mummies scream. 
 

Interlude 
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[Verso 6]
 
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It was long, long ago when the enemies bombed us, 
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Sapphire, Sugarplum, and Tangerine, 
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And all the children born were strange and different, 
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I wonder if Im really gonna be a queen. 
 

Outro 
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