July 13th 1985 was the day we watched Live Aid
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The Global Jukebox came alive
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We fed the world that day
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We fed the world that day
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It was a day for a party we made a lot of food and we ate it sure as hell
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Vegetarian salads, they had no meat, there was leftovers as well
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Everybody laughed when I said
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Thinking of the people either dying or dead
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Let's pick up the leftovers, send them to the starving children in Ethiopia
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My mother used to say that
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Sure I was pleased to give money, cause it was not a political cause
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I just remember the smiling faces, the music and the applause
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I spent 30 quid on coke
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I smoked a little too much dope
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I was wiped out from 5 til 7, I missed Spandau Ballet and U2
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July 13th 1985 was the day we watched Live Aid
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The Global Jukebox came alive
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We fed the world that day
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We fed the world that day
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The music was fucking brilliant and that Madonna she sure can move
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By the time Paul McCartney's microphone had failed yeah, we are all well into the Live Aid groove
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Paul McCartney, he sang...
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Which must have been a bit of an irony
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Cos if you 'Let it Be' nothing will ever improve
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But it was one of the first times I ever heard one of the real Beatles sing a real Beatles' song live on television, I really wished Julian Lennon had turned up instead of his recently dead father, I was really moved
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July 13th 1985 was the day we watched Live Aid
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The Global Jukebox came alive
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We fed the world that day
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We fed the world that day
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Well the powerful voice of pop music, solve the problems, feed the world
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So what if there weren't any blacks involved there was Everything but the Girl
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Bob Geldof has no ego that man should get the Nobel Prize
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By the time he sang the solo on Feed the World
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I thought he should be canonized
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I felt guilty about the starving but I felt good to be alive
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And I must admit I shed a tear or two in the very moving video for that great Cars song Drive
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Saint Bob made me feel like shit
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So I got out an envelope, opened it
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Put in a very crisp ten pound note
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It was the same one I used earlier to snort my coke
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And that made me feel good inside
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Sending the money, not snorting the coke
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July 13th 1985 was the day we watched Live Aid
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The Global Jukebox came alive
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We fed the world that day
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We fed the world that day
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July 13th 1985 (The Live Aid Song)
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| John Wesley Harding |
