Xylorimba

[00:28.74] We've seen this one before
[00:31.82] Another holy war
[00:35.53] I gave up keeping score
[00:40.07] Disharmony is raging in the orchestra
[00:46.95] Percussion section
[00:50.56] Is this hatred or affection?
[00:55.51] Said the sad marimba
[00:58.76] "I saved myself for him but
[01:02.11] I know my chance is very slim"
[01:06.89] But unbeknownst to her there is a xylophone
[01:13.77] Who waits alone and
[01:17.69] Hopes they can make some connection
[01:22.37] Some connection made
[01:25.52] Though both of them afraid
[01:29.22] Every night they prayed
[01:33.67] Until they had a little girl and named her Xylorimba
[01:41.06] A family name
[01:44.15] A portmanteau of what's within ya
[01:49.27] But generations change
[01:52.32] Folks looked at her as strange
[01:56.06] She had her mother's range
[02:01.09] And her father's brightness but she was virtually ignored
[02:07.36] By most civilians
[02:10.76] And favoured by some vaudevillians
[02:16.04] The Mozart serenades
[02:19.25] The ticker tape parades
[02:22.60] The things she never played
[02:27.69] The list was getting longer and the forecast grim,
[02:33.65] But for Xylorimba
[02:37.90] Xylorimba wins
[02:44.44] She does what she wants
[02:47.09] She knows who she is and she's free
[03:04.21] The list was getting longer and the forecast grim,
[03:09.96] But for Xylorimba
[03:14.15] Xylorimba wins
[03:19.16] I'll take obscurity
[03:21.52] Over purity
[03:26.26] Is that maturity?
[03:29.14] It's either talent or it's luck
[03:32.53] We're beaten and we're struck like
[03:38.14] Xylorimba
[03:41.30] Xylorimba!
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