Those resourceful Romeos have all revealed
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You're the Juliet who couldn't be genteel
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All the parents looked askance with much displeasure
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As you dared to dance off with their little treasures
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And the teachers who preached anguish and abstention
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Treated you with distant condescension
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Patronised your youthful indignation
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With their idiotic indoctrination
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Then gave you bad grades just for being clever
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And you're qualified to be in debt for ever
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And you'll wonder what you did
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And you'll think you don't deserve it
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When the bad things, bad things
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When all the bad things in your life turn to worth it
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All the candidates who claim to know your fears
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Shit silence like it's verbal diarrhoea
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Imply that your suggestions are so tired
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Like they aspired to something higher
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They gonna sack you when you give them the wrong answers
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Or for failing to respond to his advances
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And you're faced with a senator's enquiry
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Sequestering your private life in diaries
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Those wretched Romeos now politicians
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Telling all the truth but with omissions
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And you'll think that you've been blessed
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And you thought that you were cursed
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When all the bad things, bad things
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When all the bad things in your life turn to worth it
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The pages fly, the calendar gets thinner
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Springs turns into summer into winter
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Preachers will illuminate their candles
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On Romeos with trousers round their ankles
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The politicians surrender to indictment
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The teachers sacked for lack of excitement
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But these are not the reasons you endure
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Revenge could never please a heart so pure
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You thought your reward would be in heaven
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Or a day job at the 7-11
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While everyone around you ran for cover
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You found a secret, now your name is love
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And you'll wonder what you did
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And you'll think you don't deserve it
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When all the bad things, bad things
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When all the bad things in your life turn to worth it
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When all the bad things in your life turn to worth it
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When All The Bad Things In Your Life Turn To Worth It
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| John Wesley Harding |