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You’re the king of the wide open spaces.
\nYou’re a tie and black shoes with no laces.
\nYou’re an endless dirty fight.
\nYou’re a tail whose dog won’t bite.
\nYou’re on permanently temporary basis.
\nYou’re the king of the wide open spaces.<\/p>\n

You’re the duke of imaginary hollow.
\nWhere the senses may senselessly just wallow.
\nYou’re a staple of the range
\nWhere the antelopes are strange.
\nAnd the deer is impossible to swallow.
\nYou’re the duke of imaginary hollow.<\/p>\n

You’re a slave to the king and duke machine.
\nAnd you seem to work so hard it makes you mean.
\nYou’re a quite unpleasant peasant
\nWith an eye trained on the present.
\nYou’re a pauper always dreaming of the queen.
\nYou’re a slave to the king and duke machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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