Pandora's Box

Song performed by Baba Yaga
Lyrics & Music written by Jan Cornall in 1978

If you feel suuffocated and heavied out
with your one forever lover cannot work it out
then why don't you go on a polygamous bout
of taking four, or five or six other friends out..

Chorus:
Monogamy - shbedogamy
do you mind if I bring a friend with me?
two is nice, but it's healthier with three
monogamy - shbedogamy

Some people used to roam the land in bands of three
committed to the cause of anti-monogamy
and when a happy couple anywhere they'd see
they'd begin to sing monogamy shbedogamy

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One day a friend came over and said
would you lilke to come to bed with me?
I said oo-la-la, but before we go to far
let me tell you where my sexual politics are.

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Monogamy, polygamy, bigamy
security, purity and chastity
and the strangest thing about these words
is that I see
they were all made up by some old man
and not by me

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No, if you think this anti-ideal is a little unreal
I won't make excuses - it's just that I feel
Some alternative is needed to love and broken hearts
If the price of love is pain, I think I'll stick to art.

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