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Congratulations by MGMT

Dead in the water
It's not a paid vacation
The sons and daughters
Of city officials (1)____________ demonstrations
It's (2)____________ a sink or swim
When all is (3)________ if the ticket sells

Out with a whimper
It's not a blaze of glory
You look down (4)________ your temple
As people endeavor to (5)________ it a story
And (6)____________ a marble word
But all is lost if it's never heard

But I've got (7)______________ to make reports
That tell me how my money's spent
To book my stays and draw my plans
So I can't tell what's (8)____________ there
And all I need's a (9)__________ big:
Congratulations

I'll keep your dreams
You pay (10)__________________ for me
As strange as it seems
I'd (11)____________ dissolve than have you (12)____________ me
The ground may be (13)____________ fast
But I (14)________ my (15)__________ to a broken mast

The difference is clear
You throw it in your cauldron
Rust and veneer
Dusk and dawn (16)__________________ and Baldwins
You start (17)________ a (18)____________ stock of all the waste
And salt to taste

But (19)________ my luck and damn (20)__________ friends
That (21)________ on combing back (22)__________ smiles
I save my grace with half-assed guilt
And lay (23)________ the quilt (24)________ the lawn
Spread my arms and soak up:
Congratulations

Answers:
(1) attend(2) hardly(3) well(4) from(5) make(6) chisel(7) someone(8) really(9) great(10) attention(11) rather(12) ignore(13) moving(14) tied(15) boots(16) Steinways(17) with(18) simple(19) damn(20) these(21) keep(22) their(23) down(24) upon