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  • Ladies in Girdles 2
Anchorage Monopoly
I only had one problem leaving Anchorage I kept following the signage That lead to Anchorage And it's difficult to get out of anywhere If you keep following directions that tell you how to get there Life's a lot like that: we start travelling in a rut And all our ruts are forged into a hoop So no matter how far we go we keep on heading back where we came from And it's difficult to break out of the loop Every time we pass through GO we get two hundred dollars And that's designed to keep us in the game But we're supposed to build on that, so when we get back to our start point Our situation isn't just the same So develop all your assets, and know each bout with CHANCE Is potentially a hazard or a gold mine Celebrate each course change, or you'll maybe find your life is Spent snoozing, looping round the circle line We can keep our life a circle where we have no chance to grow Or we can spin it like a spiral or a wheel So when we face the same direction, our perspective's not the same one And every cycle brings us the power to grow and heal Life is full of wrong turns and the way most of us act Is to back up very quickly and revise But if we keep on in full knowledge that we're forging a new pathway We can see a lot of scenery that we'd bypass otherwise It really doesn't matter which direction we take off in For everywhere's connected to the rest And every route has vistas we can see only going that way So the most direct is not always the best I only had one problem leaving Anchorage I kept following the signage That lead to Anchorage But there's one law of travelling we can't doubt If you get back to the centre, then every way is out

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