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They squeeze tightly, causing such a strain
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I know the point is "try to make one thin"
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But I would say it's far from a safe bet
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A simple diet will help your fat shed
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Was invented in the days gone by
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When women could not do much, just sigh
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Wonder how they taught themselves to brace
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For the tightening of all that lace
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Metal, ivory or bone of whale
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Would turn faces far from standard pale
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Slap on makeup filled with lead, oh wait
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Shifted topics, that's just frigging great

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Forcing women into sexy shapes
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Turning one the colour of a grape
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Squeezing women into slimmer shapes
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Who needs oxygen when you're a grape?

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Organs get squashed, but where do they go?
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Stomach in your diaphragm? Oh no
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Spleen's not faring better, have to say
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And your poor kidneys might merge one day
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Ev'ry sentence always ends in "ow"
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Least that's when you can talk anyhow
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Wasp-ish waists may be a pretty sight
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But thank God that they get undone at night
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Well, at least I hope that was the way
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Otherwise they'd sleep with scrunched-up waists
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Of course I know that sounds straight-up insane
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But I would not be shocked if that's the case

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Cramming women into thinner shapes
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Without popping them just like a grape
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Crushing women into ant-like shapes
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I think ants also have things for grapes

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Can still buy the things quite easily
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But they're not as tight a squeeze on thee
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What stopped the old-style corsets getting made?
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Metal was needed by the USA
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Cost for war production was quite high
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Needed all they could, corsets? Goodbye
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Bit more complex than all that, okay
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From what I've read, they've not gone away
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They're a big part of BDSM
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Steampunk too, since that's Victorian
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I'm just harping on one fact that galls
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That phrase said 44 times, plus four

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Mashing women into slender shapes
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Fashionable to look like a grape
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Forcing women into the same shape
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Surely men have a fetish for grapes