Let's start a war
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Let's start a war
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What the hell do you think all these new bombs are for?
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I'm feeling generous today
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And I'm itching to make a charity donation
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There are some orphan bombs who only want to do their jobs
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And need a place to detonate
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Let's start a war
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And give a home to these explosions
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Let's start a war
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I could say that I'm not smashing piggy banks for all this killing
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But I'll just turn away and bathe in the stream
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of shopping bags and half-price tags and giveaways
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We hold the purse, we hold the reins
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We can deny these spoiled kids their next allowance
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When they start shoving 'round like bullies on the playground
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We shake our pockets for more change
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Let's start a war
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'Cause I'm a sucker for a good fight
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Let's start a war
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Will we say that we're not buying any toys for naughty children
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No we'll just turn away and pass the buck off
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to the governments who kill off all the dissidents
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And let our culpability dissolve out in the acid rain
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So everyone grab your nuclear brush
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And your palette of industrial sludge
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And paint a sunrise so dark it will never return
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Please stop acting like this comes from somebody else
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'Cause we've commissioned this painting ourselves
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So just sit back and relax and scatter limbs like Picasso, spatter blood like Pollack
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Art critics are standing by
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To declare this a wonderful sight
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Lock and load all your checkbooks we'll fill this gallery
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It's such a classic tapestry
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Full of weapons and violence and need
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We will hang it in the finest museums of history
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Painting By Numbers
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