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(Stephen Sondheim)
Company
Streams are flowing …
See what's coming
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Winds are blowing …
See what's coming,
See what's going
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Roads are turning,
Journey with them.
A little learning
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Waters churning,
Lightning flashes,
Kings are burning,
Sift the ashes
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Tower tumbles,
Tower rises
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Tower crumbles,
Man revises.
Motor rumbles,
Civilizes.
More surprises
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Learn the lesson
From the master.
Add the sugar,
Spread the plaster.
Do it nicer,
Do it faster
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Reciter
The practical bird,
Having no tree of its own,
Borrows another's.
Company
Streams are roaring,
Overspilling
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Old is boring,
New is thrilling,
Keep exploring
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First the thunder
Just a murmur
A little blunder
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Then the wonder,
See how pretty!
(going under what a pity!)
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Streams are flying,
Use the motion
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Streams are dying,
Mix a potion.
Streams are dying,
Try the ocean
Brilliant notion
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Never mind a small disaster.
Who's the stronger, who's the faster?
Let the pupil show the master
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A voice
There are 223 japan airline ticket offices in 153 cities through the world.
All
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Another voice
There are 8 toyota dealerships in the city of detroit,
And seiko watch is the third best selling watch in switzerland.
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Third voice
57% of the bicentennial souvenirs sold in washington, d.c. in 1975 were made in japan.
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Fourth voice
This year japan will export 16 million kilograms monosodium glutamate
And 400,000 tons of polyvinyl chloride resin.
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Fifth voice
From the ministry of health:
By 1978 some of the beaches on the inland sea will be re-opened for public bathing.
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Sixth voice
1975 weather bureau statistics report 162 days
On which the air quality in tokyo was acceptable.
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Never mind a small disaster.
Who's the stronger, who's the faster?
Let the pupil show the master
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Reciter
Nippon: the floating kingdom.
There was a time when foreigners were not welcome here.
But that was long ago. a hundred and twenty years. welcome to japan.
All
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Brilliant notions,
Still improving
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Make the motions,
Keep it moving
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