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All the people under broken homesDon't wanna fight no moreAll the people nursing shattered bonesDon't wanna fight no moreBut there's no profit in peaceSo we've gotta fight some more And all these who are in foreign landsDon't wanna fight no moreAnd all those who've lost their feet or handsDon't wanna fight no moreBut there's no profit in peace boysWe gotta fight some more Hey we don't wanna fight no moreHey, Hey, Hey, We don't wanna fight no moreBut theres' no profit in peaceSo we gotta fight some more And all those just trying to play their partDon't wanna fight no moreAnd all those who own a human heartDon't wanna fight no moreBut there's no profit in what you wantSo we must fight some more And all those who got an axe to grindDon't wanna fight no moreAnd all those who got their burning livesDon't wanna fight no moreBut there's no profit in ever being rightSo we must fight some more Hey we don't wanna fight no moreHey, Hey, Hey, We don't wanna fight no moreBut theres' no profit in peaceSo we gotta fight some more And all the people under broken homesDon't wanna fight no moreAll the people never going homeDon't wanna fight no moreBut there is profit in the land you ownSo we must fight some more And all those who got a tired faceDon't wanna fight no moreAnd all those who are lost without a traceDon't wanna fight no moreBut there is profit in the love of hateSo we must fight some more

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If anyone rises at 6.31And thinks all day thatThey're having their funThey never did get it rightSince they got it so low To anyone drinking the morning awayThe afternoon will prove a mistakeThey never will get it rightSince we got it so low And we laugh and we drinkAnd we teach ourselves not to thinkWe never did get it rightSince we got it so low To all of the faces thatFreeze for you thereIn your memory when you try not to careThey never disappear down the slow road For all of those peopleWho bleed by the sideAnd split from their tonguesAnd sharpen their knivesThey never will get a life nowThey've got it so low And we laugh and we drinkAnd we teach ourselves not to thinkWe never did get it rightSince we got it so low Cornfields and pig-tails andFish in the streamthe night when the boys stolea billion dollar dreamfrom the high jinx schoolfor girls down the road Stories and smoke trailsand some may be trueYou're listening to meBut im talking to youI hope you never fall from graceIf you get it so low And we laugh and we drinkAnd we teach ourselves not to thinkWe never did get it rightSince we got it so low And we laugh and we drinkAnd we find it hard not to thinkWe never did get it rightSince we got it so low Never did get it rightSince we got it so low

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I am the news and I'll say no moreI am the stranger at your doorI am the the deep beneath the seaThe threat of flood tide risingI am the banks bearing refugeesAlways a cause not solutionA constant fear or a fleeting joyYour only friend who needs using I am the news and I'm in your faceAnd I'll take my profit from your faithI am the the face beneath the faceThe catalyst of explosionsI am the crop bearing crippled genesI am an inside connectionA constant friend on a changing screenYour history and direction Radio, radioI'll turn you on againYou're the truthYou're a sootheBe the bluesBe my best friendDon't give us the truthI need the news again I am the news and I'm every spinI am what is and what's not inI am the trump card, I'm the aceI am the news and I'm in your faceI am the ocean's biggest roarI am the smallest twist of fateI am the ending of a playI am the opening curtain I am the crop bearing crippled genesI am an inside connectionA constant friend on a changing screenYour history and direction Radio, radioI'll turn you on againYou're the truthYou're a sootheBe the bluesBe my best friendDon't give us the truthI need the news again

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You're a southern manYou're a northern soulYou're a west-enderYou got eastern soulBut you're no-one at all You're a rich manYou're a poor manYou're a this manThen you're that manBut you're no-one at all You're a liarYou're a winnerAnd expert and a beginnerBut you're no-one at all When the wind blowsThat's when you knowThat your nose growsAnd your face showsThat you're no-one at all You're a hard rockWith your own spaceYou're a disgraceBut you've got your graceBut you're no-one at all You're a hard space But you get things doneIf the day is lostThen the night is wonBut you're no-one at all You're a loner andYou're an only oneYou're a red manThen you're a blue manBut you're no-one at all

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Mother and Stan don't blame yourself for RoseShe was out there playing in the roadBetter to let her know not to forgetAll that schooling goes right through their heads They take back allWhen you give them lovingFall you to your kneesThen give back nothingBut looking through loveYou know there's something... so real Father and Son you're in this one so deepI could always lull myself to sleepBut I will cry to let you always knowAll my life I need your time to grow They take back allAnd you give them lovingFall you to your kneesThen give back nothingBut looking through loveYou know there's somethingLooking through loveYou know there's something... so real

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We're gonna take it step by stepLittle by little, that's allAnd a though it may be a long timeIf you and I'm strong, that's all Winter froze us like a blue MondaySo you and I we battened our defences overnightCome the spring and I'll be on the road thenI just hope that you'll have got a hold on feeling all right We're gonna take it step by stepLittle by little, that's allAnd a though it may be a long timeIf you and I'm strong, that's all You and I should sail out on the waterAnd you and I should do just what we ought to Some time soonCome the autumn we'll be getting home byThe light is thin that I'll be holding you byNot too soon We're gonna take it step by step Winter chills us like a bloody SundayBut you and I have loosened our defences overnightCome the spring and I'll be don't know where thenBut I know that you'll have had a load of feeling all right

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It's warm outsideBut I can hear the snowFalling on my windowI had to go awayTo somewhere deeper downI know it's my mistakeTo take off out of this townAnd June becomes July This road's on fireAnd my train's running slowIt rains against my windowI had to get awayTo somewhere no-one knowsI know it's my mistakeTo take off now in this wayAnd June becomes July The air is thinWhen you're above the cloudsI see them from my windowIt's strange to get away nowTo somewhere no-one goesI know it's my mistakeBut I don't even know nowAnd June becomes JulyAnd June becomes July

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Jane she got excavatedBy a trader dealing in old linesThen she got her papersFrom a mailer telling her more lies So here we goDown an endless road where we knowNothing good here will ever growWe're wasting our own time Says she knows more than she lets onThat's how she gets on when she is outsideWhen the wind comes on harderShe needs a shelter of their warm lies So here we goDown an endless road where we knowNothing good here will ever growWe're wasting our own timeAnd better knowEveryday life will carry onEveryday when you're not so strongYou're wasting your own time She was taken last SundayTo a safe place dealing in this lineThen she got her papersFrom a faceless who won't tell her one more time So here we goDown an endless road where we knowNothing good here will ever growWe're wasting our own timeAnd better knowEveryday life will carry onEveryday when you're not so strongYou're wasting your own time

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Emily chambers would make it payEveryone knew she'd turn out that wayShe turned her back and she'll be okayBut she's not okay at all Every night with the radio onEmily fears that the day won't comeThe moon is there to do her harmShe's not all right at all Don't get arrestedDon't buy a machine gunYou're on the runAnd you're not on the sceneYou're not so coolAnd you're not a jerkYou may be a villainBut no patty hearstYou're emily chambersAnd what's worseIs a whipping windAnd a box in a hearseAnd a trigger in your headAnd a pen in your handAnd the pain in the verseAnd the flat drying landAnd the thin of the airAnd a pain that hurtsYou're emily chambers in the universe Emily chambers would make it payEveryone knew she'd turn out that wayShe turned her back and she'll be okayBut she's not okay at all Every night with the lamplight onEmily fears that the day has goneThe moon is there to do her harmShe's not all right at all Don't get arrestedDon't buy a machine gunYou're on the runAnd you're not on the sceneYou're not so coolAnd you're not a jerkYou may be a villainBut no patty hearstYou're emily chambersAnd what's worseIs a whipping windAnd a box in a hearseAnd a trigger in your headAnd a pen in your handAnd the pain in the verseAnd the flat drying landAnd the thin of the airAnd a pain that hurtsYou're emily chambers in the universe Emily chambers would make it payEveryone knew she'd turn out that way...

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Straighten your collar and smile'Cause you've never been lazy'Cause you in a styleCall the shots every day Soul DriverDon't hurryIt's my timingIt's not your worryAnd I'm taking my timeAnd laying my rootsSince I've been so far away You're such a practical manYou work so hard for your livingYou make me understandThat it's all in the giving Soul DriverDon't hurryIt's my timingIt's not your worryAnd I'm taking my timeAnd laying my rootsSince I've been so far away

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