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COUPLE MINUTES

V4.5

you’re coming up to chat you’re coming down to sing to me you’re coming up for air looks as though you need to breathe you’re coming up to speed you’re coming down to read with me you’re coming, coming, coming in nicely - do you speak to your mother with that tongue why even try it with me have you got a chip on your shoulder, have you, have you just a couple minutes in our time of need - you don’t read the papers you don’t scan the room you won’t ever get my letters it’s senseless sending for you you don’t read the rhetoric you won’t be taken for a fool you don’t have use for handsome dollar-bills that come with hefty rules - do you speak to your mother with that tongue why even try it with me have you got a chip on your shoulder, have you, have you just a couple minutes in our time of need - just a couple minutes can turn it all around just a couple minutes you’re pregnant with child just a couple minutes earth won’t cease to spin just a couple minutes in the western hemisphere [musical interlude: echoing] just a couple minutes can turn it all around just a couple minutes you’re pregnant with child just a couple minutes earth won’t cease to spin just a couple minutes in the western hemisphere - you’re coming up to chat you’re coming down to sing to me you’re coming up for air looks as though you need to breathe you’re coming up to speed you’re coming down to read with me you’re coming, coming, coming in nicely wrapped in volatility, wrap-wrap-wrapped in, wrapped in [trail off, echo] do you speak to your mother with that tongue why even try it with me have you got a chip on your shoulder, have you, have you just a couple minutes of your time is all we really need, is all we really need [trail off, echo] [musical outro]