Lavoura Arcaica
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I'm an epileptic!
An epileptic!

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Your brother is epileptic,
now you know it!

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Go home and tell everyone!
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Go now, and you'll see that
the doors and windows at home...

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will bang shut
by this wind!

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And you, men of the family...
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carrying Father's heavy tool box,
will walk around the house...

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violently hammering crossed
boards over the windows!

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And our sisters...
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dressed in black, will run
around the house in mourning.

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It'll be a chorus of howling,
sobbing and whimpering...

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a locked-up family dance!
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He abandoned us...
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And with a flock of scarves
to hide their faces...

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they will huddle, exhausted,
sobbing in a corner...

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He abandoned us...
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And you will scream
louder and louder:

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"Our brother is a convulsive.
A possessed epileptic!"

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And tell them I have a room in a
boarding house for my fits.

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We lived with him
and we didn't know.

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Never even once we suspected!
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Never even once we suspected!
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He abandoned us.
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He abandoned us.
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And yell as you will,
gorge yourselves!

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Although you don't understand
the sinister web I got caught in!

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And you, Pedro, as the eldest,
you may lament:

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"It's sad he has our blood!"
Cry out! Cry out loud:

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"He's been possessed by
a cursed disease!" Scream it!

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What a disgrace has descended
upon our household!

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"What makes him different?"
And you'll hear the chorus...

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He's possessed by the devil!
He's possessed by the devil!

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"He's possessed by the devil!"
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Then you go ahead and say:
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His eyes are gloomy...
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He's possessed by the devil!
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Then keep sputtering,
like stones in a sewer and say:


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