I Sing the Lightbulb Electric once a jolly lightglobe burnt out over Billy’s bong a lightbulb is a lightbulb is a lightbulb lightglobes to the right of me lightglobes to the left of me bursting and blackened the force that through the green globe no longer lights the dunny does not go gentle into that dark night and you my father on that stepladder height change change the dying of the light I was just ten when they tried to change you that black bulb that blew my pretty red heart in two will you change it change it change…
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