Name: Pearl Manhattan - 88 Hours
Duration: P00H04M06S
Description: A song that began its life as a lateral thinking puzzle. So, spoilers, I guess.

Pearl Manhattan - 88 Hours

from Now! That's What I Call Wordsmith by Stephen Wordsmith

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A song that began its life as a lateral thinking puzzle. So, spoilers, I guess.

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CHORUS
88 Hours
88 Hours
He sat like a stone for 88 Hours
Didn't shift a bone for 88 Hours
Moved neither muscle
Nor tiny corpuscle
He sat like a stone for 88 Hours
88 Hours

Late afternoon came the gnawing ache
Pushed him through hell for his heaven's sake
Stabbed in the throat by a toothsome menace
Grabbed his old coat, headed off to the dentist

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Swept through the lobby at 4:58
The dentist alone to determine his fate
The anaesthetic angel gone for the night
He sat in the chair and the doc strapped him tight

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His drill firm in hand like an erstwhile dagger
The dentist leaned in, then started to stagger
Clutching with knuckles of white at his chest
Collapsed to the floor with a cardiac arrest

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BRIDGE
And so they passed Friday night together
This unlikely pair
A dentist dead, a statue of a man
His teeth in disrepair
Thus passed the longest long weekend
He'd ever suffered through before
Until at last on Tuesday morning
Heard a key turn in the door

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The secretary gasped at this hierogylph
A man now a stiffy, and one rather stiff
She undid the fetters, the hero released
A pity his toothache no morsel had ceased

CHORUS

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from Now! That's What I Call Wordsmith, released October 7, 2019
Written and recorded for 50 Songs in 90 Days, 2018

Lyrics by Stephen Wort
Vocals, all instruments and production by Pearl Manhattan: www.pearlmanhattanmusic.com

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