Commissioning a Symphony In C

So you'll be an Austrian nobleman
 Commissioning a symphony in C
 Which defies all earthly descriptions
 You'll be commissioning a symphony in C
 With money you squeezed from the peasants
 To your nephew you can give it as a present
 This magnificent symphony in C, you'll be
 Commissioning a symphony in C
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 Completely filling the palace concert hall
 It's warm and golden like an oven that's wide open
 It has a melody both happy and sad
 Built on victorious young triads
 You've entered the room with great caution
 Though no one in the hall is even watching
 They are transfixed, they are forgetting just to breathe
 They are so taken by your symphony, ah, in C
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 You're sitting there thinking your thoughts
 They are not about what is but what is not
 You're sitting there breathing in your breath
 You are seldom breathing life, but mostly death
 So you'll be an Austrian nobleman
 Commissioning a symphony in C
 Which defies all earthly descriptions
 You'll be commissioning a symphony in C