| I’m here sitting in the wreck of Europe
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| With a map of Europe
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| Spread out in a hall of Versailles
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| And every single nationality and principality
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| Have come for a piece of the pie
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| I’m sitting in the wreck of Europe
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| With a map of Europe
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| And the lines and the borders are gone
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| We’ve got to do this jigsaw puzzle
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| It’s an awful muddle
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| But somehow we’ve got to go on
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| Lawrence of Arabia is waiting in the wings
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| He’s got some Arab sheikhs and kings
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| And we’re in debt to them somehow
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| Lawrence of Arabia has got this perfect vision
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| Gonna sell him down the river
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| There’s no time for him now
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| I think I’m gonna take a piece of Russia
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| And a Piece of Germany
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| And give them to Poland again
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| I’ll put together Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
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| And hope that is how they’ll remain
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| Then I’ll take a bit of Turkey
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| Then a lot of Turkey
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| This is all quite a heady affair
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| There’s Persia and Iraq to pick up
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| And there’s Churchill’s hiccup
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| And we can’t leave it up in the air
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| Woodrow Wilson waves his fourteen points around
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| And says «The time to act is now
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| Won’t get this opportunity again»
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| Woodrow Wilson has his fourteen points
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| But Clemenceau turns to Lloyd George
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| And says «You know that
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| God himself had only ten»
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| Today I’m carried by a league of notions
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| (It's a league of notions)
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| By a league of notions
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| I don’t think I quite understand
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| (I don’t think I understand)
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| I only know from this commotion
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| (From this commotion)
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| There’s a chance that we could turn
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| The world in the palm of our hands
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| (We can turn the world in the palm of our hands)
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| Voices in the corridors of power
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| Candles burning hour by hour
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| Still you know that to the victors go the spoils
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| Such a great responsibility to make it fair
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| And there must be some reparations now
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| And don’t forget the oil
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| Today I’m carried by a league of notions
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| (It's a league of notions)
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| By a league of notions
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| I don’t think I quite understand
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| (I don’t think I understand)
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| I only know from this commotion
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| (From this commotion)
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| There’s a chance that we could turn
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| The world in the palm of our hands
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| (We can turn the world in the palm of our hands)
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| Pax vobiscum
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| Wo-Oh, Pax vobiscum |
Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song A League of Notions (with Laurence Juber), artist - Al Stewart. Album song Between the Wars (With Laurence Juber), in the genre Иностранный рок