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a paradox - jinkx monsoon, nicholas barasch & ramin karimloo lyrics

[ruth]
when you had left our pirate fold
we tried to raise our spirits faint
according to our customs old
with quip and quibbles quaint
but all in vain the quips we heard
we lay and sobb’d upon the rocks
until to to me it then occurred a startling paradox

[frederic]
a paradox?

[pirate king]
a paradox!

[ruth]
a most ingenious paradox!
we’ve quips and quibbles heard in flocks
but none to beat this paradox!

[ruth, frederic & pirate king]
a paradox, a paradox
a most ingenious paradox
ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
ha, ha, ha, ha!
[pirate king]
we knew your taste for curious quips
for cranks and contradictions queer;
and with the laughter on your lips
we wish’d you there to hear
we said “if we could tell it him
how fre’ric would the joke enjoy”
and so we’ve risk’d both life and limb
to tеll it to our boy!

[frederic]
this paradox? this paradox?

[pirate king, ruth]
this ingenious paradox!
we’ve quips and quibblеs heard in flocks
but none to beat this paradox!

[ruth, frederic & pirate king]
a paradox, a paradox
a most ingenious paradox
ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
ho, ho, ho ho!

[pirate king]
for some ridiculous reason
each fifteenth season
some authoritative source on which we’ve fallen back
perhaps the farmer’s almanac!
has decided that although for such an inexcusable month as february, twenty*eight days as a rule are plenty
one year in every four, for sure
it’s days shall be reckoned as nine and twenty!
through some singular coincidence
and at this point my amazement is limited only by the available rhymes in my vocabulary
you are the victim of this clumsy arrangement
having been born in leap year, on the twenty*ninth of february
and so by a simple arithmetical process you’ll discover a phenomenon most strange:
that though you’ve lived twenty*one years, yet, if we go by birthdays, you are only five, and spare change
[ruth]
ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

[pirate king]
ho, ho, ho ho!

[frederic]
dear me, let’s see!
yes, yes, with yours my figures do agree!

[ruth & pirate king]
ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ho, ho ho!

[frederic]
how quaint the ways of paradox!
at common sense she gaily mocks!
though counting in the usual way
years twenty*one i’ve been alive
yet, reck’ning by my natal day
yet, reck’ning by my natal day
i am a little boy of five

[ruth & pirate king]
he is a little boy of five!

[ruth, frederic & pirate king]
ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
a paradox, a paradox
a most ingenious paradox
ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
that paradox!
ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
that curious paradox!
ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
that most ingenious paradox!

- jinkx monsoon nicholas barasch ramin karimloo lyrics

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