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Mark Nadler in the musical The Confidence Man
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Have confidence in someone with confidence in you
Trust someone and become one of the few who do
I ask a vote of your confidence—give what you can afford
A note of your confidence to reach "a-chord"
Confidentially speaking you'll feel years lighter when
You answer "yes" by tweaking the "no's" you followed
Then I tell you in confidence:
If I had your confidence I'd use it to get it again
Never could abide, never could abide irony
Never could abide, never could abide satire
Irony and satire tire me, ire me—
Products of the system, easy to resist them
In my pursuit of genuine confidence
Have confidence in someone with confidence in you
Trust someone and become one of the few who do
I ask a vote of your confidence—give what you can afford
A note of your confidence to reach "a-chord"
Confidentially speaking you'll feel years lighter when
You answer "yes" by tweaking the "no's" you followed
Then I tell you in confidence:
If I had your confidence I'd use it to get it again
I'd use it to get it again