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A Game of Musical Chairs

It is a game of musical chairs We elect them in pairs Out with one, in with another A father replaced by a mother We vote for the wrong reason We rotate faces every season They call it democracy, supreme Designed to bring in the cream The metropolis must work The County, their responsibility must not shirk No water at home; lights on the blink An Expressway viaduct at the front gate, they sink

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