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With a calm and strategic no |
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I'm back and I'm solo |
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This is the Oliver Twist manifesto |
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For the age I was born, for Victoriana |
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This is Oliver Twist pissing over Britannia |
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50 years of Tin Pan Alley |
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I learned good from a king thief mentor |
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200 years of teenage anarchy |
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Papist threats and no popery |
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Revenge ???? the cold in Soho |
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This is the Oliver Twist manifesto |
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Totality for the kids |
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Oliver Twist |
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This is Oliver Twist |
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There was this gang who I used to run with |
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Swindlers, knaves, urchins scum, spivs |
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Looking good comes in handy |
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When you're dipping from the pockets of a dandy |
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And there's murder in the air at the Connelli room |
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And there's treason in the air at the Groucho |
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If there's a TV pop in the Soho house |
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It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to tell you |
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That it's Oliver Twist |
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Doing it for the kids |
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Keep the boy on gruel |
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There's a young British artist in the room |
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This is Oliver Twist |
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What if all of the village idiots |
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And all the raspberry ripples |
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Are just putting it on |
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And they're the brightest of all of the cripples? |
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Oliver Twist I cartarista |
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Disappear into a pea souper |
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Swooping down like the Hun |
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Over the gas-lit streets of London |
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Into a pea souper |
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A Cartarista |
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Unto you my children I bestow this gift |
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It's a ballroom blitz |
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This is Oliver Twist |
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This is Oliver Twist |
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A cartarista |
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Into a pea souper |
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Totality for the kids |
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Oliver Twist |
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Swooping down like the Hun |
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Swooping down over Soho |
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It's the Oliver Twist manifesto |
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Oliver twist |
