[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Gardenia Where are you?
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Black goddess in a shabby raincoat, Where are you tonight?
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Cheap purple baby-doll dress, a gardenia in your hair
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Much taller and stronger than me, a forbidden dream, a dream, a dream
[Chorus]
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All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
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All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
[Verse 2]
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Gardenia, Where are you, tonight?
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The streets were your home, Now where do you roam?
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Your hourglass ass, And your powerful back
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Your slant devil eyes, And the ditch on your spine, Deep ass, deep ass
[Chorus]
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All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
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All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
[Bridge]
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We lay in the darkness
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Then she turned the lights on
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I saw a dangerous habit
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When she turned the lights on
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There's always a catch in the darkness when you
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When you turn the lights on
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There's always a catch Oh well, oh well, oh well, oh well
[Chorus]
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All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
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All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
[Verse 3]
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Alone in the cheapo motel, By the highway to hell
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America's greatest living poet was ogling you all
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Night, You should be wearing the finest gown
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But here you are now -- Gas, food, lodging,
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poverty, misery --and gardenia
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You could be burned at the stake
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For all your mistakes, mistakes, mistakes
[Chorus]
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All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
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All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
