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Continue the muted strum technique in the verses.

 I was sipping on a Whiskey when I got the call

 Yeah my friend Lex was lying in the hospital

 She'd been pretty sick for about half a year

 But it seems liked this time the end was drawing near

 So dropped my plans and jumped the next London train

 I found her laid up and in a lot of pain

 Her eyes met mine and then I understood

 That the weather forecast wasn't looking too good

 So I sat and spun her stories for a little while

 Tried to raise her mood and tried to raise a smile

 But she silenced all my rambling with a shake of her head

 Drew me close and listen this is what she said now

 "You'll live to dance another day,

 it's just now you'll have to dance, for the two of us,

 so stop looking so damn depressed

 and sing with all your heart

 that the Queen is dead"

 Yeah she told me she was sick of all the hospital food

 And of doctors, distant relatives, draining her blood

 She said "I know I'm dying, but I'm not finished just yet,

 I am dying for a drink and for a cigarette"

 So we hatched a plan to book ourselves a cheap hotel

 In the centre of the City and to raise some Hell

 They waste to all the clubs and then when everyone else is long asleep

 We know we're good and done

 "You'll live to dance another day,

 it's just now you'll have to dance, for the two of us,

 so stop looking so damn depressed

 and sing with all your heart

 that the Queen is dead"

And South London's not the same anymore

The Queen is dead,

and the last of the great has finally gone to bed

 Well I was working on some words when Sarah called me up

 She said that Lex had gone asleep and wasn't waking up

 And even though I knew that there was nothing to be done

 I felt bad for not being there and now, well, she was gone

 So I tried to think what Lex would want me to do

 At times like this when I was feeling blue

 So I gathered up some friends to spread the sad sad news

 And we headed to the City for a drink or two

And we sang

"We live to dance another day,

 it's just now we have to dance for one more of us,

so stop looking so damn depressed,

 and sing with all our hearts,

 long live the Queen"