System of regret Merely dearly departed juveniles Get a clue Twenty-seven ways to lie And subtle ways to tell a lie And twenty-seven women line up to the moon And to the moon, to the moon, to the moon Invitation fails Panic tears our tormented juvenile Who understood Subtle ways to tell a lie And many ways I had to practice Only one female's alive Only one female, the one that will never know A way to smile Subtle ways to tell a lie And twenty-seven women line up to the moon And to the moon, to the moon, to the moon To the moon, to the moon, to the moon, to the moon