Compromise around the corner
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can you hear the accountants call?
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could you refuse another dollar?
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could you stop yourself from falling?
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so in between the sleepless nights
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you dream that you are winning fights
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but then it happens, dreadful thing
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a wave appears too big to swim
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you're drowning, you're drowning.
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buy a beach before next summer?
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how do you feel in the morning?
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if the light's an awful bother
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i could always close the curtains.
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just close your eyes and count to ten
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see if you still remember when
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your life seemed easy, you had friends
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but that was different than that was then
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you're drowning, you're drowning
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round and round and round
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you're drowning
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in a frenzy now
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you're drowning
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you want fe go in a de ocean, a so me say
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i saw you drowning in slow motion, and now me learn
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far too late to make a commotion
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too late for you to show easy motion
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a say you go down to the bottom
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say you can't reach the top
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get stuck on the bottom
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say you can't reach the top
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two days later say they find you 'pon the rocks
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say ha ha ha ha ha bad luck!
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eh? so ...
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tell yourself until you're certain
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can you hear the accountants call?
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you'll buy a beach before next summer
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swim away and leave it all.
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so underwater deaf and blind
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under such pressures you might find
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a secret right before the end
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that makes you want to breathe again
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you're drowning, you're drowning
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round and round and round
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you're drowning
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inner frenzy now you're drowning
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round and round and round and round
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you're drowning, drowning
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you said you're unhappy
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and you've taken all these tablets
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just turn on the television
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Drowning
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| The English Beat |
