Key: C minor
Verse 1
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It's called, "Storm"
Verse 2
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Inner North London, top floor flat,
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All white walls, white carpet, white cat,
Bright bloke,
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an old mate of ours from home
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And they're always great fun,
so to dinner we've come.
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together for a favour
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'Cause this girl's just
arrived from Australia
And she's the sister of someone or
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struck by her beauty
She's irrefutably fair with dark
eyes and dark hair
But as she sits,
I admit I'm a little bit wary
'Cause I notice the tip of
the wing of a fairy
Tattooed on that popular area just
above the derrière
And when she says "I'm
Sagittarian,"
I confess a pigeonhole starts to form
And is immediately filled with pigeon
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when she says her name is Storm.
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and light hearted
She opines,
over her Cabernet Sauvignon,
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Vis- à- vis some un
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hippily empirical comment by me.
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We're only on pre- dinner drinks,
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Silently begs me: "Be nice!"
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A matrimonial warning,
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not worth ignoring
Deciding whether to leave her
apartment by the front door
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Or the window on her second floor.
Verse 7
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Slightly pissedly holds court on some
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Anachronistic aspect
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When Storm suddenly
mystery!"
"Science just falls in a hole when it
Tries to explain the the nature
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My hostess throws me a glance.
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I'll be off on one of my rare
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but fun rants but I shan't
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And al though Storm
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Although it's becoming a bit of a wrestle
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Because like her meteorolo
gical namesake,
Storm has no such concerns
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"Pharmaceutical companies are the enemy,
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at the cost of the natural remedies
That are all our bodies need
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They are im moral and driven by greed.
Why take drugs when herbs
can solve it?
I think it's time we all
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Return- to- live with natural
Verse 10
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a small crack appears in
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my diplomacy- dike.
"By definition," I begin,
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"Alternative medicine," I continue,
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"Has either not been proved to work,
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or been proved not to work.
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Medicine."
Verse 11
remedies?"
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"On the contrary Storm, actually Before we came
Verse 12
to tea,
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It's got a weird name, darling,
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what was it again?
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M- masprin? Basprin? Oh
yeah! Asprin!
Verse 13
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But as they return with desserts
There are more things in heaven and
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Earth than ex ist in your philosophy.
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It doesn't explain love
The afterlife? The power of prayer?"
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staring,
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I'm like a rabbit
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headlights of vacuous crap.
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Maybe it's the Hamlet she just
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misquothed
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Or the sixth glass of wine I just quaffed
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s can be held back no more:
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"Look, Storm, Sorry I don't mean
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to bore you
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but there's no such thing as an aura!
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Tea- leaves or star- signs
or meridian lines
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These people aren't applying a skill,
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They're either lying or mentally ill.
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hear God's demands
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And spiritual healers who
think they've magic hands.
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By the way, why
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can talk to the dead?
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Isn't that totally fucked in the head?
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Lying to some crying
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woman whose child has died
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And telling her you're in touch
with the other side?
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I think that's fundamentally sick
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Do we need to clarify here that there's
Verse 17
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Horton Heard a Who?
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Do we still believe that Santa
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brings us gifts?
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Are we still so stunned by
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circus tricks that we think
That the dead would wanna talk
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keeps firing off clichés
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With startling precision like a sniper using
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bollocks for ammunition
Verse 19
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"You're so sure of your position
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but you're just closed- minded
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I think you'll find that your
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faith in science and
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Tests is just as blind as the faith
Verse 20
point,
let me think for a bit.
Oh wait, my mistake,
that's absolute bullshit.
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Science adjusts it's views
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Faith is the denial of observation
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If you show me that, say, homeopathy works,
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then I will change my mind
Adim
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I'll spin on a fucking dime
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I'll be embarrassed as hell,
But I will run through the streets yelling
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physics and bin it!
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And while it's memory of a long
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seems Infinite
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It somehow for gets all the poo
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it's had in it!'
Verse 21
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And when I've recovered
from the shock
That' on the side of my cock."
Verse 22
Everyone's just staring now,
But I'm pretty pissed and I've
dug this far down,
So I figure, in for penny,
Verse 23
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teries,
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yeah
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But there are an swers out there
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And they won't be found by
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people sitting around
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Looking serious and saying 'Isn't
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life mysterious?'
'Let's sit here and hope.
Let's call up the fucking Pope.
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Let's go watch Oprah interview
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Deepak Chopra.'
Verse 24
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watch Scooby Doo.
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That show was so cool
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Was a church with a ghoul or a
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They looked beneath the mask
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and what was inside?
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The fucking janitor or the dude
who ran the waterslide.
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Mystery ever solved has turned out to be
Verse 25
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Does the idea that there might
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be knowledge frighten you?
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Does the idea that one afternoon on
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Wiki- fucking- pedia might
enlighten you frighten you?
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Does the notion that there may not be
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a supernatural so blow your
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Stand in the fog of your in
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A
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Just this beautiful, complex,
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wonderfully unfathomable, natural world?
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How does it so fail to hold
our attention that we have to
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Diminish it with the invention of cheap,
man- made myths and monsters?
If you're so into your Shakespeare,
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lend me your ear:
to paint the lily,
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To throw perfume on the violet...
is just fucking silly"
Or what about Satchmo?!
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"I see trees of Green,
Red roses too,"
And fine, if you wish to glorify
Post- colonial,
Condescending bottled-
up and labeled
Kind of way then whatever, that's ok.
I am a tiny, insignificant,
I have one life,
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and it is short and unimportant...
advances I get to live
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Twice as long to love this wife of mine
Twice as many years of friends and wine
Of sharing curries and getting
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shitty at good- looking hippies
With fairies on their spines
Verse 28
and butterflies on their titties.
And if perchance I have offended
Think but this and all is
mended:
We'd as well be 10 minutes back in time,
Outro 1
For all the chance you'll change your mind.
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