In an office two miles underground
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They can't tell night from day
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Secretaries typing errors of judgement
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In eternally full in-trays
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Phones ring in, get put on hold
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Well I'm just waiting for my nails to dry
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I was coming unstuck with nothing to show
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You stuck to him like felt on velcro
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But now he's gone solo
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He's taken all the amps, smashed the bedside lamp
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Taken all the lightbulbs and the decorative wheelclamps
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You got a dark dark dark heart
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It's the heart of darkness
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Now you live in a filing cabinet
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You're another painful smiling face
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What you had doesn't even have the grace
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To be forgotten without a trace
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It lies, it cheats, it moans, it bleats
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Almost human in every detail
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In this stinking room, no-one goes to bed
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There's nothing to say that hasn't been said
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It's not enough to wish you were dead
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You had the last laugh but he didn't know why
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He jumped out the window, man, he thought he could fly
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You got a dark dark dark heart
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It's the heart of darkness
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Look at your body well you're lying still
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There's a smile across your face
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At the funeral yesterday
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Your corpse looked out of place
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You looked like death to the gathered throng
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But I knew you were laughing inside
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Something about your sense of humour
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Based on innuendo and rumour
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You were the ultimate consumer
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I took all your things, I threw away your wedding rings
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You had a big collection, baby, now they don't look so
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fetching
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You got a dark dark dark heart
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It's the heart of darkness
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It's 4 am inside my mind
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But it's dusk out on the street
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The lamps are burning fireflies
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Who couldn't stand the heat
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I got cool bed linen, baby
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So the story should be complete
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But somewhere in the back of behind
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There's a light that makes me feel unkind
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Those stupid things I made you sign
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It ain't deus ex machina
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It's not some soul subpoena
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It's just when things mean nothing it makes you meaner
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You got a dark dark dark heart
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It's the heart of darkness
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Dark Dark Heart
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| John Wesley Harding |