Best of both worlds    (video)

 

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1. We want the best of both worlds,       we want it slow and hot,

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    we like to taste revenge, yeah, but we can’t waste the shot.

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    We want to see from both sides,        we like it cool and fast,

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    we want to get it over,        we like to make it last.

 

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    Keep it on, it’s getting closer, the best of both worlds,

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    double fun, we’ll make the most, girl, to get the best of

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    both worlds,        we must obey the law.

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    What good is a place to stand up       without a place to fall ?

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    Two and one, fast and slow, girl, the best of both worlds,

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    double fun, I’d like to now propose a toast to the best of both worlds.

 

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    I think about the war that is no fight at all,

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    I think about the peace that is a fight for all the best of both worlds.

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    Do di dum, do di dum,        do di dum dum dum.

 

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+  Keep it on, fast and slow, the best of both worlds,

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    tight as a drum, loose as a gun holster,

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    yeah, it’s getting closer, hmm.

 

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2. Why do we waste our breath, child,       on what we like the most ?

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    Seeing as we’ve wound up here,       we ought to do them both.

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    Back and forth, we get the most, yeah, the best of both worlds,

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    south and north, I’d like to now propose a toast

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    to the best of both worlds.

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    Two and one, fast and slow, girl, the best of both worlds,

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    double fun, we’ll make the most girl, to get the best of both worlds.

 

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+     Do di dum, do di dum ...                                      (3x) ....

 

 

(orig. = capo 2nd)    (Robert Palmer)