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It's a fine day |
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And I'm ambling down the Kingsland Road |
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Out to buy a paper and a microphone |
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Around the way from my abode |
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I spy a dude with a sandwich board |
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He's talking about The End of The World |
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It's coming from abroad apparently |
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Which it might, or mightn't be |
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Figure me, we should be closer looking to home |
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I pass on anyway and keep my mouth shut |
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Because there's not much point |
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I spot a kid up on the corner |
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And he's smoking a joint |
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And from my own experience, I know the coppers sound our way aint lenient |
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but who am I to tell him how to live his life? |
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It's not like i ever listened as a younger |
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Plus he's got a face like thunder |
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I leave it |
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And weave my way through ladies old and young and fat and falling |
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Sun beams down, it's a pretty lush morning |
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But something's going down where they're waiting for their buses |
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One lone bag is causing something of a ruckus |
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Man sitting at the but stop |
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Staring at his wristwatch |
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Waiting for the bomb drop, tick tock |
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I was thinking of all the right things to say |
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And the girls in the long socks |
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Listening to their hi-top hip-hop |
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Waiting for the bass-drop |
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I was thinking of all the right things to say |
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Curious, approach a lady and I ask her, |
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Whargwarn? |
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She says there's a suspicious package and it might just be a bomb |
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I think I've had it up to here with all these "suspicious packages" |
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Makes as much sense as, like, "pissed off packages" |
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Or packages that's "jealous", anyway, she thinks it terrorists |
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Like the whole town's teeming with "terrorists" |
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Reds Under The Beds turned to terrorists, rah though |
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I'd like to point that out, but she might think that I was mad |
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So I don't say nothing about the fact that they're exaggerating |
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How easy it is to control a terrified population |
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How I think they're overstating every damn thing... |
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Anyway the crowd's increasing, they're all pointing at this thing |
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Just then a teenage girl wades through |
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Grabs the bag, waves to her crew: |
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"I got it!" |
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Takes the phone out of the pocket |
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Presses play, then bops away |
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The people stare, then someone says: |
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"What's that terrible tinny racket? Stop it!" |
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Man sitting at the but stop |
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Staring at his wristwatch |
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Waiting for the bomb drop, tick tock |
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I was thinking of all the right things to say |
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And the girls in the long socks |
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Listening to their hi-top hip-hop |
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Waiting for the bass-drop |
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I was thinking of all the right things to say |
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And when the lights go out in Highbury |
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The library already burned and blown away |
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It shouldn't matter now |
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Who frightened me, who lied to me |
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At least we've got something to say |
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Man sitting at the but stop |
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Staring at his wristwatch |
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Waiting for the bomb drop, tick tock |
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I was thinking of all the right things to say |
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And the girls in the long socks |
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Listening to their hi-top hip-hop |
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Waiting for the bass-drop |
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I was thinking of all the right things to say |
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Man sitting at the but stop |
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Staring at his wristwatch |
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Waiting for the bomb drop, tick tock |
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I was thinking of all the right things to say |
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And the girls in the long socks |
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Listening to their hi-top hip-hop |
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Waiting for the bass-drop |
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I was thinking of all the right things to say |