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Is this the dance lounge?
Is this the Dance Pro Pair?
Caught in her bustle
No escape from his slicked back hair
Order a drink,
Look round you & think & see
She's a detective, she has no mask to wear
Because it's 123, there they go
Petunia gown, gigolo
Anyway she looks though
It's not really coy you see, you see

HV just saw the lounge
There was music in the air
Little tables everywhere
Waltzing, it had just begun
Watch Antoine & Charis blow them all away
HV, ooh
Knows the costumes lie
The fashions come again, but not the will to
Just submit to a man, as if women didn't matter.

Too late for old time clothes
Though the waistlines may look spare
Not a corset anywhere
Goodbye, savage lacing- you've got to go
Got a dressmaker to make them look so slim
HV, ooh
Knows it's all a mask
Though men might be fooled by this imitation...

I see a little imitation of the past
"Autres temps, autres mouers." Will you do the waltz quick-step?
Ostrich feathers, fans too, very very chic on you-
Tennis dresses- Tennis dresses-
Tennis dresses- Tennis dresses-
Tennis dresses always show muscular waists just so- oh -
I'm not throwback to the old "womanly"
She's not a throwback, she is modernity
Spare her the thought that she's submissive, please!
Short skirts come, bustles go
Funds will make it so
Milliners, no! We will not have it so! Have it so!
Milliners, no! We will not have it so! Have it so!
Milliners, no! We will not have it so! Have it so!
Will not have it so! Have it so!
Will not have it so! Have it so!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no-
Oh Trains & bustles, trains & bustles
Trains & bustles have to go
A short skirt, full pocketbook, oh, & a job to do, to do, to do!

So you think you can dress them & make them coy dolls
They won't let you, just wait & see when the mask falls
Oh, HV sees through them all so eas'ly
Just gotta get out, she's gonna get right out of here-

Games don't really matter
Anyone can play
Everyone play the game
They all know the rules today....

Any way the game's played....

-- the Cattery

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