Key: Eb major
Verse 1
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Something
always
keeps you scurrying
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There's additives in the fittles
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And there's poisons in the air
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There's kids with problem parents
And you can't imagine
To pay the bills
You're getting old, getting fat
Behind the Joneses
Lost your job and a top batch
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You've got no matches for the gas
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Your head is always aching
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And the earth is always quaking
Cholesterol, a national front
Traffic jams, a neutron bomb
Afghanistan is rainin' on your holidays
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Deficits and overflows
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The hurdles and the undertoes
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Have we got enough without
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The nuclear sideshow?
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The mortgage, the petrol
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The insurance and the rent
A flutter on the pools
This could be a ruinous event
Alimony by 83 will be on our knees
And the Portuguese will
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send us foreign aid
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You pay to read the news about inflation
a drop of booze
And little things like clothes,
food, heat, light, rates
And your Mediterranean cruise
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From dire need to extravagance
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the nuclear expenses?
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is wearing thin and wearing out
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Gas and oil are given out,
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the pop runs out of beer
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Your teeth are full of fillings
and the peace talks disappear
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Along with the strike negotiations,
relations with your relations
Cities crumbled
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and there's holes in all the sheets
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Your marriage needs repairing,
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between the ears
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Broken -down machines
combine to wear you down
Whatever it is that's getting you down
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by breaking up and breaking down
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without a nuclear meltdown?
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ten don't turn out so nice
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the bridge across the Tay
Getting married can be great
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DC -10s again and again,
DDT, Rolling Point, Concord
Join the army,
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don't forget your dolk on shield
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There's junctions like spaghetti
Mini Metro, Maxi Hindenburg
They even built a hospital
with an enema room without a
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loo
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Longadoodledoo
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Guinea pig s of every nation,
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let's announce our abdication
A miss is who?
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If you find the transportation
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you can die among the wheels
and choking on your meals
and clubs and knives
In the hands of thugs and mugs
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of husbands an d their wives
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There's suicide and cancer
drinking all your cares away
Cholera, diphtheria, hysteria,
or snakebite
Plenty of ways of getting faster
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to the day you breathe your last
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without a nuclear disaster
All the things you like to do,
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the smell of treacle tart
West Ham winning at home,
we're dabbling in the arts
and bacon and egg,
and bacon and egg,
and books, flowers, clouds
Garden men and fishin',
sleepin' in and wishin' you was winning
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The bonds are simply gazing into space
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Once upon a time a loaf of bread,
a double bed,
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a glass of wine, my love and you
that women get their kicks
from watching little heartbeat
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Doo -da -loo -da -loo
All the good things that attract you,
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don't forget that it's a fact
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because of a nuclear reactor.
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they could be in the holy book.
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power from the sun.
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There's energy from outer space,
control the population,
make McDonald's with a soybean.
And all things geothermal,
they're infernal,
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cause no profits can be made.
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Of course we could share out the wealth,
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but some will say it'd ruin their health.
And recycling all the plastic
and the glass,
the news of the world, the metals,
and the nasty biodegradable things
our institutions,
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maybe a little re volution.
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Just remember that the nuclear way
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may any day turn out to be
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a very final solution.
you
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