Our protagonist’s boyfriend and his parents are dining in their home. The lecture initially begun in “Advice” resumes here, and in greater detail.

To his true annoyance, which at one point peaks with him raising his voice to his mother, his parents once again team up to dissuade him from staying with his girlfriend, by pointing out her perceived weaknesses.

The music is handled in a tongue-and-cheek manner, sequentially pairing two incompatible styles in order to have fun contrasting each parent’s personality.

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Its title parodying that of “The Friendship Waltz”, as well as more subtly suggesting the words “false” and “faults”, this minor-key embellishment of the former work once again features the group of four friends, who, short of blissfully singing simplistic songs about the supposed meaning of life, as they did before, now instead begin to shallowly gossip against their “friend”, the young woman whom they recently abandoned — and who now covertly is overhearing them, having just now arrived to try and talk with them again.

Though hurtful and sad to the young woman, her friends’ current behavior is simply delightful to one character in particular, and proves to be precisely what that “Master Deceiver” has been attempting to arrange, as we discover in the following piece, which bears Satan’s title.

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