| Have you heard about trouble throughout the land
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| With the fascists and the left wing militants
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| Out of work executives are killing themselves
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| And the i.r.a. |
| are killing everybody else
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| Don’t panic, don’t lose control
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| Keep your head, keep ahold
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| Act normal there’s nothing wrong
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| Stay cool, just carry on You gotta live life and be yourself
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| You can’t live life for anyone else
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| You gotta live life that’s all you do Nobody gonna live your life for you
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| Don’t get depressed when you read in the press
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| About world revolution and social unrest
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| Try not to panic when you switch on the news
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| And see crooked politicians and the unemployment queues
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| It’s only life it’s really fine
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| So don’t you believe all you read in the headlines
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| Live life see it through
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| Carry on it’s all you can do You gotta live life for yourself, can’t live for anyone else
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| You gotta live life, that’s all you do Nobody gonna live their life for you
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| Extra verse from long version:
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| Trendy intellectuals always take action,
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| For every cause that’s ever been in fashion.
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| Weekend revolutionaries protest and sing
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| Because they’re dedicated followers of any old thing.
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| They got every solution for every revolution.
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| They live in the slums just like the poor people do But they’d rather sniff coke instead of glue.
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| Right-wing fascists beat up the blacks,
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| Then they salute the union jack.
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| You can’t pretent there’s nothing wrong,
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| It’s not the end, so just carry on.
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| Oh, life’s a mother, oh, life’s a mother
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| Oh, life’s a mother, oh, life’s a mother
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| You gotta live life for yourself, can’t live life for anyone else
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| You gotta live life, that’s all you can do Nobody gonna live their life for you
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| Live life, you gotta live life
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| You gotta live life, you gotta live life |