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When I was a younger man
When I was a silly boy I didn't need a thing I was strong as anything I viewed solitude as a joy But since I met you I'm distraught You wandered in and now I'm caught I never thought I would see Someone so truly good Someone who's so everything I'm not I want to spend my life with you Don't want to live all alone I can't conceive of the years left to me Without you in our home But what if what if what if what If it's not perfect then it's not But every care I take Nothing I won't forsake To dwell beside what you've got Every time I think about you I think I can't live without you I tell you something I am nothing without you I want to spend my life with you Don't want to live all alone I can't conceive of the years left to me Without you in our home I want to spend my life with you Don't want to live all alone I can't conceive of the years left to me Without you in our home Without you in our home |
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In Recognition of your 100 million album sales
In Recognition of your popularity You take your gaudy prize from people you said you despised You wear your self-respect upon your bended knees. In spite of all your claims It looks like you're just the same As every other clown, who likes put the crown Before or after their name. In Recognition of your service to the working class In Recognition of your party loyalty You get an ermine robe and you declare when you are probed You only took it so the missus would be pleased In spite of all your claims It looks like you're just the same As every other clown, who likes put the crown Before or after their names. Ohhhhhh Vanity It gets them one by one Patronage and Monarchy And all they entail, rarely fail In Recognition of your bravery up on the stage In Recognition of your bank ability You get to wait in lines with soldiers crippled by land mines And you think it's the yanks that don't get irony In spite of all your claims It looks like you're just the same As every other clown, who likes put the crown Before or after their names. In spite of all your claims It looks like you're just the same As every other clown, who likes put the crown Before or after their names. Their name Their name Their name |
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Evidence of a new religion
I'll spare you the details Effluent from a bloated business With replica shirt sales Two for the kids, one for the wife Indicating a stunted life Didn't know gullibility was so rife? Well you do know now? Evidence of a new rligion Some hippy with a gripe Strikes a blow with his census form By summoning Star Wars tripe Here's a thing I'd love to say Lynndie England walks free today If she'll only agree to play With every Jedi Knight An Lo! My faith it was honed We can't be alone Don't say we're alone Give me ancestry that's inbred Give me wit that's completely dead Give me a zip for the back of my head I want to join in too Evidence of a new religion Meeting a human need fertiliser for the brain Feeding the weakest seeds |
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You're a modern individual
With a mind that's strong and free And it got you what you wanted From the day you came to be But when you got what you wanted It could never quench your thirst So you blamed the ones around you For not warning you first But now the ones around you Are going and of no use 'Cuz as the last one vanishes She takes the last excuse There's no one left to blame You're the cause of your pain Love made you forget it Love of every hue A mother's love, a father's love A lover's love, a child's love But it came back again And you felt like you'd lived through An almighty deception Designed just for you But the almighty deception Gives while you just take It's living all around you While you're holdin' its wake There's no one left to blame You're the cause of your pain You blamed it on the market For burdening you with wealth You blamed it on the whisky As if it poured itself Dive into the mystic So you don't have to think Find another suspect Find another shrink There's no one left to blame You're the cause of your pain There's no one left to blame There's no mystery Not even the one that you see There's no mystery Not even the one that you see There's no mystery Not even the one that you see |
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Here he comes again
on the radio, another misogynist calling her a bitch, calling her a whore and then he'll use a big word, use a big word some of the time just to make it rhyme just to make it rhyme. Here it comes again got to keep it real, another hymn to violence suffocating joy, draining all ideals another hymn to violence, give me silence some of the time just to make it rhyme just to make it rhyme. So words are thrown to waste, and women are debased for fun and as they start to sing I can't help wondering what we've become? Oh, here it comes again, on my new TV, another well-fed schoolboy saying he's a man, but what kind of man, puts down women, puts down women all the time just to make it rhyme, just to make it rhyme? Here it comes again, x4 on the radio, calling her a bitch, x2 calling her a whore. x3 Here it comes again, x4 on the radio, calling her a bitch, x2 calling her a whore. x3 Here it comes again. x10 radio/radios. x16 Here it comes again. x2 |
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You need to harness pain
To raise yourself up again You need to harness pain And tell the truth about love You need to break your heart Before you can really start You need to break your heart And tell the truth about love Then you need to set a goal that you can't reach Then you have to attack defenses you can't breach Then you need to lose and lose and lose again If you want to hold the flame You harness pain You harness pain You need to take your doubts And spread them all about You need to face your doubts To tell the truth about love You know the cliche's wrong Hatred is just as strong You know it's just as strong Just as strong as love So you need to take your hate and doubt and fear Distill them through your word 'til they run clear 'Til they run right through your heart like Highland rain If you want to hold the flame You harness pain You harness pain Do you want to be the best or be well known? Do you want to repeat lines or write your own? Do you want to follow paths or blaze a trail? When you try to succeed, You mostly fail And you're gonna lose and lose and lose again If you want to hold the flame You harness pain You harness pain |
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When I was a young boy
My mama said to me There's only one girl in the world for you But she probably lives in Tahiti I'd go the whole wide world I'd go the whole wide world Just to find her Or maybe she's in the Bahamas Where the Carribean sea is blue Weeping in a tropical moonlit night Because nobody's told her 'bout you I'd go the whole wide world I'd go the whole wide world Just to find her I'd go the whole wide world I'd go the whole wide world Find out where they hide her Why am I hanging around in the rain out here Trying to pick up a girl Why are my eyes filling up with these lonely tears When there're girls all over the world Is she lying on a tropical beach somewhere Underneath the tropical sun Pining away in a heatwave there Hoping that I won't be long I should be lying on that sun-soaked beach with her Caressing her warm brown skin And then in a year or maybe not quite We'll be sharing the same next of kin I'd go the whole wide world I'd go the whole wide world Just to find her I'd go the whole wide world I'd go the whole wide world Find out where they hide her |
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If there's a God
Where does He go to When disease and hunger Knock on the door? And if there's a God How does He decide That she'll be born rich But he'll be born poor? I don't know Can you tell me? Oh Can you tell me? Oh If there's a God Why does He let People die slowly Racked by pain? And if there's a God Who blesses with children Why does He steal Some back again? I don't know Can you tell me? Oh Can you tell me? Oh If there's a God Why is He letting Violence and murder Be done in His name? But if there's no God Why am I lying Here in the dark Saying his name? I don't know Can you tell me? Oh Can you tell me? Oh I don't know Can you tell me? Oh Can you tell me? Oh |
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