[NICK]
Hey, Mr. Arnstein
Here's your ace

It's a temporary arrangement
When you're down
There's nowhere to go but up

I find that lady luck changes affection
Fortune's a fickle dame
Haven't run into them lately
But both of them know my name
It's a temporary estrangement
From the crystal dish and the silver knife

But there's another side to the coin
Tomorrow night, tenderloin
'Cause a temporary arrangemеnt
Is the only permanent thing in lifе

I find that lady luck changes affection
Fortune's a fickle dame
Haven't run into them lately
But both of them know my name
It's a temporary estrangement
From the crystal dish and the silver knife
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'Cause a temporary arrangement

[NICK]
Is the only permanent thing

[ENSEMBLE]
Only permanent thing

[ENSEMBLE, NICK]
The only
The only permanent thing
Only

[NICK]
Permanent thing!

[ENSEMBLE]
Temporary, temporary, temporary