I'm laying on the pavement
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And the last thing I recall
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Picked up by the arms and legs
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And taken from the hall
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For squaring up to culture
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In the circle and the stall
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All because they're playing Wagner at the opera
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All because they're playing Wagner at the opera
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Hurt can make you act without
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Apology or regret
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Over half a century
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But still I can't forget
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Ideology makes a mockery
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Of the string quartet
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All because they're playing Wagner at the opera
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All because they're playing Wagner at the opera
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When they came to take me
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I was standing on a chair
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I can't keep quiet
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I have something to declare
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Listen to my rattle
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For my rattle says "Beware"
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All because they're playing Wagner at the opera
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All because they're playing Wagner at the opera
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A rattle for remembering
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The rattle of the chains
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A rattle for remembering
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The rattle of the trains
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From Warsaw down the decades
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To hell and home again
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All because they're playing Wagner at the opera
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All because they're playing Wagner at the opera
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For everyone we lost
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I swing the rattle loud and long
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I swing it 'til I drown out
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All the music and the songs
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This tattoo will last forever
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And my memory is long
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Here's to no more playing Wagner at the opera
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Here's to no more playing Wagner at the opera
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Here's to no more playing Wagner at the opera
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Wagner At The Opera
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| Chumbawamba |
