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Careless Whisper



"Careless Whisper"

I feel so unsure
As I take your hand
And lead you to the dance floor
As the music dies
Something in your eyes
Calls to mind a silver screen
And all its sad goodbyes

I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should've known better than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance that I've been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you

Time can never mend
The careless whispers of a good friend
To the heart and mind
Ignorance is kind
There's no comfort in the truth
Pain is all you'll find

I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should've known better than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance that I've been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you

Tonight the music seems so loud
I wish that we could lose this crowd
Maybe it's better this way
We'd hurt each other with the things we want to say
We could have been so good together
We could have lived this dance forever
But now who's gonna dance with me
Please stay

I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should've known better than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance that I've been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you

Now that you're gone
Now that you're gone
Now that you're gone
Was what I did so wrong
So wrong that you had to leave me alone?
--- by G. MIchaeil (Queen Subject - Ol'Fart Liz the 2nd)
--- nice for a slow-dance

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A song about yearning to become the first Tibetan Buddhist U.S. President.

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Submitted by gbstana on June 16, 2021

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Scheme xaxbbxb CDEFEGCH eeiixi CDEFEGCH jjkkllxk CDEFEGCH MMMxxax
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,554
Words 317
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 7, 8, 6, 8, 8, 8, 7

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