A whiter shade of pale (Procol Harum)
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We skipped the light fandango
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And turned cartwheels across the floor.
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I was feeling kind of seasick, the crowd called out for more.
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The room was humming harder as the ceiling flew away.
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When we called out for another drink, the waiter brought a tray.
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And so it was that later, as the miller told his tale,
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That her face at first just ghostly turned a whiter shade of pale.
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She said "there is no reason, and the truth is plain to see",
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But I wandered through my playing cards and would not let her be.
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One of sixteen vestal virgins, who were leaving for the coast.
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And although my eyes were o--pen,
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They might just as well have been closed.
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