| For you I know I’ve been raving about this story
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| Starts getting to the dogs every night on the hour
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| Ships carrying bands in their entourage
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| Off to seek their fortune here in America
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| We’ve been refused entry so many times we’ve lost count
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| So storm the way! |
| It’ll be ten years
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| Or thereabouts
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| Maybe plays it safe
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| And you have come to their senses
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| But we doubt it
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| 'Cause the next bomb on the train will be
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| senseless
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| And then you’ll shout it
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| And every time the stock market crashes
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| It takes the whole damn country with it
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| So when this country goes *pop* we’ll have already done it
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| Well the ship pulled ashore and the crowds are behind
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| But there was already fat ones and warm in desire
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| The crowd surged forward, over and by us
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| And then we saw a bigger man standing behind us
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| And we were blocking their way
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| I had to get a limousine to take 'em away, the bastards
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| Never had much money
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| And cars they dont come cheap
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| So all were could afford was a broken down Jeep
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| We trusted a man, who got it off Rob
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| Said he looked really sad that he sold it
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| But we went back to pick up a battery and the engine exploded!
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| Then we walked across town to the hotel
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| Where we were hoping to stay
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| But arrived to find the room had been booked
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| And they turned us away
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| So we were left on the street
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| Looking for a new place in which to stay
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| Did it slightly remind us about checking out this brave new world?
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| No, but we did anyway
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| The first thing we wanted was to find a place
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| Where we could buy something to eat
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| We were amazed walking back to find someone
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| Had left a rubbish bag round in the street
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| And it was only as we got closer that we saw it
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| Was an old man who’d collapsed
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| As people walked by they kicked him aside with their feet
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| We passed a small bookstore where religious fanatics
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| Had pushed their way in to burn the heretics
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| The books had been published, yet had anyone read them?
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| Well it didn’t matter 'cause they knew what was in them
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| Well you knew, anyway
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| When you’ve got to go you never lead me astray
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| We passed a small boy who was covered in blood
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| We asked if there was any way that we could have helped him
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| The boy just ran off and we came to an alleyway
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| And although it was dark, we could see someone lying there
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| We thought it was a woman who was beaten quite black
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| And I realised that she must have been assaulted or started
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| So we covered the body
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| And we called the police without leaving our names
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| Then we left an unsolvable crimes out the way
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| We ran away to a diner & went to a table and just sat and stared
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| What kind of a place are we in where nobody cares?
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| Then the waitress came over to take our orders
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| And noticed we’re white
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| And I asked her «We're English -- did you move here by choice?»
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| She looked at us strange so I told her our story
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| And she laughed and said
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| «You must have got on a ferry cause you never left England» |