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This is a transcription of the 2nd draft of the aborted concept album ''[[Songs from the Black Hole]]'', as it is presented in the book ''[[The Pinkerton Diaries]]''. It's placement in the book (which is largely in chronological order) suggests that it was written in late February or early March of 1995. It is unknown the degree to which the pages are presented in story order (only some of the pages are numbered) or if the entirety of the draft is represented in the book. Separate pages are denoted by a horizontal line.

==ACT I - 10 May 2126==

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|<u>'''SCENE I'''</u>
|The Cockpit
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|'''M1:'''
|4, 3, 2, 1 ...
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|'''Jonas:'''
|Blast off! Up to the stars we go
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|and leave behind everything I used to know
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|Somebody's givin' me a whole lotta money to do what I think I want to
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|So why am I still feelin' blue,
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|Oh, Wuan and Dondó?
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|<br>
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|'''Wuan and'''
|Goddamn, get your head outta your hand
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|'''Dondó:'''
|Here's to all the times we're gonna have
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|Cooped up for a year with the two best looking babes I've seen all year
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|'''Wuan:'''
|Get me another bottle o' beer
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|Cuz' I'm feelin' fine!
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|Go ahead and waste your head
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|we got the time
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|I hope you don't object that I
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|Speak my mind
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|<br>
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|'''Wuan:'''
|Sit back and light up a fat one, man
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|It's gonna be a long, cold trip if you act like that
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|Think of all the chicks and the money and the news crews waitin' back home for us
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|Get me off the magic bus
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|I don't think I belong
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|<br>
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|'''Wuan:'''
|Go ahead and waste your life on silly fears
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|I hope you don't object if I
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|crack another beer, yeah!
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|I hesitate but it's too late
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|It's pullin' me in
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|I've no control anymore
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|It's pullin me in
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|I don't know where I'll go
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|it's pullin' me in
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|<br>
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|'''M1:'''
|Just don't forget the purpose of the mission
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|and don't forget the message decoded by Computer 1
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|Each one of you is a top graduate of the StarCorps Academy
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|It's up to you so take it easy
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|On the Mickey's Wide Mouth
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|I hesitate but it's too late
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|It's pullin' me in
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|I've no control anymore
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|it's pullin me in
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|I don't know where I'll go
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|it's pullin' me in
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|'''Dondó:'''
|Hold on, who is it here that I see
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|Wasn't she your favorite bitch in the Academy?
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|I don't know if I wanna lead on this woman
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|you know I've done that before
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|She's actually a good girl
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|<br>
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|'''Wuan:'''
|Or at least a cheap 'ho'
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|<br>
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|'''Maria:'''
|Who you callin' bitch?
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|dontcha listen to a word they say
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|<br>
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|'''Maria:'''
|but they make me so mad
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|they don't matter to me anyway
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|chill out baby stay with me for a while
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|but that don't mean I'll get with you tonight
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|<br>
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|'''Maria:'''
|I'm so pissed at those boys
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|Let me comfort you and hold your hand
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|<br>
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|'''Maria:'''
|Especially that Dondó...
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|acting like he knows he's got a big thing
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|I know his type. You're safe with me for a while
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|but that don't mean I'll get with you tonight
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|''I want you so badly''
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|''too bad that you're too bad for me''
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|You love me and I like you
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|but I've got to getchoo, getchoo
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|<br>
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|'''Maria:'''
|You know I love you so
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|Please remember that I'm just a friend
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|<br>
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|'''Maria:'''
|A friend who's in my pants?
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|Never more never ever again
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|You're too crazy for me to settle down with
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|So I won't let me lead you on with a kiss
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|I want you so badly
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|too bad that you're too bad for me
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|You love me and I like you
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|But I've got to getchoo, getchoo
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|It hurts you so badly
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|I'm sorry, you can't have me
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|I won't let me get with you tonight
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|'''Jo-Jo:'''
|Oh, Jonas I've missed you
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|nobody else loves me like you do
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|in A
|Oh, Jonas I need you
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|nobody else, nobody else loves me like you do
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|<br>
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|come to my pod
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|there's no one there we'll be alone
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|in G
|we can talk
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|and if you want to we'll get stoned
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|and relax
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|have fun
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|in my pod
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|'''Jonas:'''
|in your pod
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|no one knows the things we do
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|we'll get high
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|and if you want to we'll sniff glue
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|and relax
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|have fun
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|in your pod
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|in my/your pod
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|'''and'''
|no one knows the things we do
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|'''Jo-Jo'''
|we'll get high
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|and make love the whole night through
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|in Bb
|and relax
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|cool out
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|in my/your pod
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|'''Maria:'''
|Now that we're left all alone
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|touch me and kiss me and love me
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|I'm tired, so tired
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|I'm tired of having sex
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|I'm spread so thin
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|I don't know who I am
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|Monday night I'm makin' Jen
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|Tuesday night I'm makin' Gwen
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|Wednesday night I'm makin' Catherine
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|Oh, why can't I be makin' love come true?
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|I'm beat, beet red
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|ashamed of what I said
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|I'm sorry, here I go
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|I know I'm a sinner but I can't say no
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|Thursday night I'm makin' Denise
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|Friday night I'm makin' Sharise
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|Saturday night I'm makin' Louise
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|Oh, why can't I be makin' Love come true?
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|Tonite I'm down on my knees
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|Tonite I'm beggin' you please
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|Tonite, tonite, please!
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|Why can't I be makin' love come true?
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|<u>'''Scene II'''</u>
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|11:30
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|'''Jonas:'''
|What the hell am I doing?
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|Thinking with my willie
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|Knowing I don't love her
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|I tell her no
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|then kiss her toes
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|<br>
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|'''Laurel:'''
|What the heck are you doing?
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|Leading on that poor girl
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|I know there's something better
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|deep in you
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|Now let it through
|Have L. sing
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|Pain, pain go away
|"he is in my eyes
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|come again another day
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|Cuz I've got a friend tonight
|he is in my ears
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|a super friend to make things right
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|<br>
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|blood
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|I'll turn away from weakness
|tears"
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|and turn to something better
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|show me how to live right
|(both ("you are...")
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|I never noticed you
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|but now I worship you
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|<br>
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|'''Laurel:'''
|Don't be talking silly
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|Save the sweets for the young girls
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|You can talk for real to me
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|Now close your eyes
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|and leave the lies
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|<br>
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|'''Both:'''
|Pain, Pain go away
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|come again another day
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|Cuz I've got a friend tonight
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|A super friend to make things right
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|<br><br>
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|Come to me
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|'''Jo-Jo:'''
|Now you're happy as can be
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|Here's your dramatic irony
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|I hate to burst your bubble
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|looks like we're both in trouble
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|I'm afraid I'm late about two weeks
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|<br><br>
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|I hate to burst your bubble
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|Looks like we're both in trouble
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|One think that I know for sure it's you
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|I thought you should know
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|Here's a little clue
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|You did this to me
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|So what are you gonna do?
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|No matter to me
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|I love you more
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|I want you to know
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|Why, oh, why do I hang on
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|Knowing you'll never turn round
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|I just can't help myself
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|I want you and no one else
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|So why isn't that enough for you?
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==Tragic Girl==
<poem>
I want you so bad

Your touch is magic


I love you so much
You sad, sad girl
You're just killin' yourself
and I can't be a partner to that
You dear, dear, girl
Vulnerable helpless soul

You're lost to me
You're so beautiful
When you're drunk and pukin'
I want to care for you
You dear lost soul
lipstick smeared across your face
your breath is barf
I've got to let you go

But you're a 1000 times alive
a 1000 times the girl
You're just killing yourself
and I can't go with you
I can't tie(?) myself to that
I have to let you go
and watch you sink before my eyes
I can't bring myself to say the words
but you know... you know
You're falling apart before my eyes


I can't go on with you

You're a tragic girl
You lead a tragic life (I'm your sober boy)
I'm just meant to be
You're latest tragedy
Goodbye tragic girl
goodbye tragic life
I need to be alone
and live inside myself
You make me want to cry
You make me want to run
to or away from
That I never know

You're so beautiful when you're dying

I just can't do it</poem>

===<u>Things that seem fishy</u>===
baby needs more<br><br>
Dondo needs more<br><br>
Maria doing drugs while pregnant<br><br>

==ACT II - 327 days later==

{|
|<u>'''SCENE I'''</u>
|Jonas's Pod
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|'''Jonas:'''
|She's had a girl
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|sweet child of mine
|"the 1st child born in space"
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|Her blood's my blood
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|Her eyes, my eyes
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|I can't believe
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|She belongs to me
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|I belong to her
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|forever
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|Now I finally see
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|what it is I want
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|Only I'm too late
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|Surrender! She has won
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|<br>
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|'''Wuan:'''
|Dude!
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|<br>
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|'''Dondó:'''
|Dude!
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|<br>
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|'''Wuan:'''
|Dude!
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|What?
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|<br>
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|'''Wuan and Dondó:'''
|Good news! Good News! Good news!
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
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|What's...
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|'''Wuan:'''
|Now we're finally landing
|so damn important that you
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|'''and Dondó'''
|M1's started scanning
|feel that it's necessary to
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|for a possible source
|interrupt me in
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|of the distress call we received
|my pod
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|Now! We're finally landing
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|Now! We're finally landing
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|Get your stuff together
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|Cuz now we're finally gonna land
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|<br>
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|Good news, good news, good news
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|good news, good news; good news
|so who gives a damn now?
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|good news, good news, good news
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|Now I finally see
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|what it is I want
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|And I won't concede
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|surrender to her love
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|Now I finally see
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|What it is I want
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|<br>
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|<siren>
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|<br>
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|'''M1:'''
|Prepare for landing
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|'''Jonas:'''
|This is beginning to hurt
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|This is beginning to be serious
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|It used to be a game, now its a crying shame
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|Cuz you don't wanna play around no more
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|I used to run around
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|Sometimes I fell and skinned my knee
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|I never meant to do all that I've done it's true
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|Please, baby, say it's not too late
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|to Getchoo, uh-huh
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|Getchoo, uh-huh
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|Getchoo, uh-huh
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|Getchoo, Getchoo, Getchoo. uh-huh
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|Ya know this is breakin' me up
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|you think that I'm some kind of freak
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|Bud if you'd come back to me then you would surely see
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|that I'm just foolin' around
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|to Getchoo, uh-huh
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|getchoo, uh-huh
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|getchoo, getchoo, getchoo
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|I can't believe
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|What you've done to me
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|What I did to her
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|You've done to me
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|<br><br>
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|This is beginning
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|<br><br>
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| now I know what I must do
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|where I belong
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|<u>'''SCENE II'''</u>
|Outside Maria's Pod
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|<br><br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|My girl's on fire
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|But I'll stand beside her
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|She's all I've got and I don't want to be alone
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|My girl don't see me
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|When she's with my friends
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|She's all I've got and I don't want to be alone
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|No there is no other one
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|No there is no ther one
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|I can't have any other one
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|though I would, now I never could with one
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|All of the drugs she does
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|Scare me real good
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|She's got a tattoo
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|and two pet snakes
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|But nobody knows me like her
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|Nobody knows her like me
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|We're all we've got and
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|we don't want to be alone
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|No there is no other one
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|No there is no other one
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|I can't have any other one
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|though I would, now I never could with one
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|'''Wuan:'''
|Touch down, there's no sign of life anywhere
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|I don't understand what the hell we're doing here
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|Travel for a year and drink a lot of beer is my idea of fun
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|But where's the prize we should have won?
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|'''M1:'''
|Chill out
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|I think I've found some sort of anomaly
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|We're gonna go out to the surface of the planet and take a quick look around
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|<br><br><br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|Go ahead and look around
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|I'll stay behind
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|It's time for me to settle down
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|And set things right
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|'''Dondó:'''
|Hold on, who is that ring you got for
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|'''Jonas:'''
|Suddenly our shortcomings
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|don't seem to matter that much
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|your IQ is 20 points low
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|and I'm no 6 foot hot-look all-american man
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|Sad to say I pushed you away
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|waiting for Mrs. Right
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|But you never gave up
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|Devotion, waiting for me
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|You'll always be my girlfriend
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|I too am waiting for you
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|I'll always be your friend
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|I commend your stubborness
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|Without it we'd've never got this far
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|I am done with perfection
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|chasing her leaves me with nothing but pain
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|Unlike you she isn't true
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|She's got her own concerns
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|But you never gave up
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|Devotion, waiting for me
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|You'll always be my girlfriend
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|I too, am waiting for you
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|I'll always be your friend
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|'''Jonas and'''
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|'''Jo-Jo:'''
|Now that we're left all alone
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|Touch me and kiss me and love me
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|'''Jonas:'''
|What is this I find
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|under your behind?
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|extra-huge
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|and it's used
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|I wonder which 2 of us
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|best of friends opened and used it
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|<br>
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|'''Jo-Jo:'''
|Jonas, you know I waited
|Oh, I threw away
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|waited till I couldn't take it
|your loving kindness
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|I was alone, he called on the phone
|I took you for granted
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|and gave me the love you wouldn't
|I'm all alone
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|'''Jonas:'''
|The only man I know
|Jo-Jo: think of the times we loved
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|who fits is our Dondó
|think of the child we have
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|extra-huge
|love would come true
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|and its used
|if I could undo
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|I know which 2 of us
|what you-
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|''Best of friends opened and used it''
|you made me do
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|<strike>Now I finally see</strike>
|<strike>No! there is no other one</strike>
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|<strike>What you're all about</strike>
|<strike>No, no, No there is no other one</strike>
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|<strike>too late too late</strike>
|<strike>I can't have any other one</strike>
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|<strike>what I did I wish wouldn't have done</strike>
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{|
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|'''Maria:'''
|Oh Jonas, I hear you
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|I know that you're in there with Laural
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|Damn
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|<br>
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|'''Maria:'''
|Oh Jonas, please hear me
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|I need to tell you something
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|Now open, open the door
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|<br>
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|Why haven't you called me
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|did you forget me
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|I need to know
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|When were you intending
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|to break the silence
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|and let me know
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|mine is the loneliest of numbers
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|and now is the loneliest of times
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|I'm 19 days late
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|but still I sit and wait
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|Waiting and Waiting
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|Waiting and waiting
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|Waiting and waiting
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|Waiting on you
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|Who have you been seeing
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|That made you forget me
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|I bet you call her
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|Where, where does she come from
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|I bet it's New England
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|I bet she's just a friend
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|I asked you if you had a good heart
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|<br>
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|'''Jonas:'''
|I answered "Yes, I'll never do you harm"
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|<br>
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|'''Maria:'''
|Oh Jonas, I've told you
|in D
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|Now you know why I've been crazy
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|'''Jonas:'''
|Maria, I'm sorry
|in F
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|I promise to give you a ring
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|as soon as I get the chance
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|<br>
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|Oh! She's a liar
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|She's just trying to trap me
|'''Laural:'''
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|Maria is nothing to me
|Maria is all that you've got
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|Laural you're all that I want
|Maybe you could have had me
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|Maybe you thought I was joking before
|Maybe you could have had me
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|But now you must know that I'm not
|if you grown up a little bit sooner and
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|Now I know for sure
|thought - about your life
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|I've changed my ways
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|I'm ready for you
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|'''Jonas:'''
|I know I shouldn't trust in you
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|Ya got a look that made me think you're cool
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|But it's just sexual attraction
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|Not somethin' real so I'd rather keen wackin'
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|Why bother?
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|It's gonna hurt me
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|It's gonna kill when you desert me
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|This happened to me twice before
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|It won't happen to me anymore
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|I've known a lot of girls before
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|What's the harm in knowin' one more?
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|Maybe we could even get together
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|Yeah, maybe you could break my heart next summer
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|Why Bother?
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|It's gonna hurt me
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|It's gonna kill when you desert me
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|This happened to me twice before
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|It won't happen to me anymore
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|It's a cryin' shame I'm all alone
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|Not with you, not her, nor anyone
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|won't you knock me on my head
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|Crack it open let me outta here now
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|Don't bother
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|it's gonna hurt me
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|it's gonna kill when you desert me
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|<br><br>
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|Why bother? It's gonna hurt me
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|Why bother? It's gonna hurt me
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|<br><br>
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|'''Laural:'''
|I'm so tall, can't get over me
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|I'm so low, can't get under me
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|I must be all these things
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|For I just threw out the love of my dreams
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|he's in my eyes
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|he is in my ears
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|he's in my blood
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|he is in my tears
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|I breathe love and see him every day
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|Even though my love is a world away
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|Oh he's got me wonderin'
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|My righteousness is crumblin'
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|Never before have I felt this
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|know what is right but want for him to stay
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|I must be made of steel
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|For I just threw out the love of my dreams
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|<br>
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|We are an alien race
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|our world is in grave danger
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|<br><br>
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|"black hole ... help ... you're our only hope"
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|(last survivor) (my)
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==See also==
*''[[Songs from the Black Hole]]''
*[[Songs from the Black Hole, draft 1|''Songs from the Black Hole,'' draft 1]]
*''[[Pinkerton]]''
*''[[The Pinkerton Diaries]]''

[[Category:Songs from the Black Hole]]