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Songs-in-a-Bottle Pete's Songs in a Bottle

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How Long Must I Wait ?

you sense and capture emotion and then manipulate
you make controlling demands, then stealthily stipulate
you know when somebody wants you, and when they rise to your bait
you like to see someone near you disintegrate

you treat another's emotions like playing with a toy
your nonchalance turns the heat up while keeping cool and coy
you put yourself on parade ground, you strut with confident pride
toying with worms on a fish-hook until they've died

fool to follow fate
you you fascinate
how long must I wait for you to break my heart ?

you're diffident and indifferent, keep playing hard to get
but when you pick on a victim, you haul them in the net
putting yourself on a stage-floor, you let them all get a view
getting a kick out of watching them wanting you

fool to follow fate
you you captivate
how long must I wait for you to break my heart ?

you know full well that you've got it, you like to flirt and flaunt
you dangle it then deny it, a game of tease and taunt
your effervescent enticement takes them to dream number nine
and when you've lifted them so high you cut the line

fool to follow fate
you you stimulate
how long must I wait for you to break my heart ?

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(correction: should be while you keep cool and coy,
&
you you fascinate in each chorus)

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