Celibacy - Marcie Boyd

(Intro)

Everybody's always singing love songs, turtle-dove songs, moon-up-above songs

Everyone's exclaiming or proclaiming or declaiming

on the subject of maintaining a romance

But have they really entertained

an impulse to remain restrained

When all the world is falling in a trance?

(Part I)

1. Celibacy, there's something to be said for celibacy
It's nothing to be dreaded
Try it and see
That you're fun to be alone with
(It's not a myth!)

2. Celibacy, its joys are quite unparallelibacy
Though when its passion seems unquellibacy
It's a helluva situation!
Bridge:
But what a vacation from your pair bond, or your paramour, or your serial monogamy
Or your wild oats, or your wedded bliss
Or your unchecked promiscuity

3. Celibacy, no nights in seedy old motelibacy
There'll be no messy infidelibacy, or jealibacy
Or tearful farewellibacy
Try celibacy today!

(Part II)

4. In a nutshellibacy
Although it shouldn't be compellibacy
A certain kind of personnelibacy
Thrives on celibacy
It's true, so don't feel blue (or weird!)

5. Take it from me, I once thought love was immortelibacy
But now I know that was a fallibacy
Only celibacy endures
Of this I'm sure
Bridge:
So if your co-unit is tired of doin' it
Or she's grossed out by your fantasies
Or she wants to, but not with you
Or maybe one of you has got a disease

6. It's just as wellibacy
The future's always unforetellibacy
So make the present really swellibacy
Get mellow-bacy
Celebrate, don't delay!
Try celibacy
You might as wellibacy
Try celibacy today!
(You can always change your mind tomorrow!)

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