| On Monday I took a flower
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| Dried it in my hand
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| Covered it in poison
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| And I threw it on the land
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| On wasted ground it tried to root
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| But choked upon the sand
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| And there’s room in my diary for you, my friend
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| And there’s room in my diary for you
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| On Tuesday I took a bird
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| Such pain to hear it sing
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| I blackened it with petrol
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| And oiled its little wings
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| I tainted the breeze
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| As I threw it to the wind
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| And there’s room in my diary for you, my friend
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| And there’s room in my diary for you
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| On Wednesday I took a man
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| He begged please help me die
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| For he lay in pain and suffering
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| It made his loved ones cry
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| I can be terrible and gentle
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| In the blinking of an eye
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| And there’s room in my diary for you, my friend
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| And there’s room in my diary for you
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| On Thursday I took a woman
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| Heavy with a child
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| My old friend Rape had paid a visit
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| Had stayed a little while
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| In a back street I touched her
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| With a wire and a smile
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| And there’s room in my diary for you, my friend
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| And there’s room in my diary for you
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| On Friday I took a city
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| Cursed it with a plague
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| Powdered crystals, smoking pipes
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| To crush and to enslave
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| And a row of dirty needles
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| Lines the route onto the grave
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| And there’s room in my diary for you, my friend
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| And there’s room in my diary for you
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| On Saturday I took a country
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| Praying for the rain
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| Parched throats and swollen lips
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| Without a harvest grain
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| And I wiped out generations
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| And I’d do it all again
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| And there’s room in my diary for you, my friend
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| And there’s room in my diary for you
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| On Sunday I took the world
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| A bomb I did employ
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| Seven days to create life
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| And one day to destroy
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| Every woman every man
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| Every girl and boy
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| And there’s room in my diary for you, my friend
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| And there’s room in my diary for you
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| Now as I close my diary
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| And I’ve made my final date
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| I blow away the ashes
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| And I stoke the smoking grate
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| I’ve no distinction between pain and joy
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| No line twixt love and hate
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| There’s no room in my diary for you, my friend
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| There’s no room in my diary for you |