[ Billy Bragg and Natalie Merchant ]
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In a busy street
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A man sits down
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Oblivious to the traffic sounds
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No chaos
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No frenzied shrieking crowd
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Thank God their silence
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Walking heads bent down
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Come when they saw us
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Called it lethargy
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The treadmill turns
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There down below their feet
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Should I pray for an end to come
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Quickly (quickly), quickly (quickly)
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Or cross the waves of an angry sea
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Risking (risking)
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And braving (braving)
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The shipwreck and the mutiny assailing
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Assailing
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In a haunted doorway
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And from the light of day
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See another life fall to ruin in pain
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False smiles from even children it seems
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Landlocked ground for empty and lost dreams
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A league against me
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I hear him say
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It's not worth half the effort
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Or the price you pay
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Should I pray for an end to come
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Quickly (quickly), quickly (quickly)
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Or should I raise my face to the heavens above
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And tell God (dear God)
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Stop jeering (and jeering)
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As our human frailties and all
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Our failings
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Are we failing?
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Pound pound on an endless street
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Again and again the nightmare scene
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All strained against the tightened rope
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Not one with a lasting lingering hope
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There's evidence everywhere you see
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Put a quarter down at the newsstand
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So that you can read
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Should I pray for an end to come
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Quickly (quickly), quickly (quickly)
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Or should I raise my face to the clouds above
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Entreating (entreating)
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Their mercy (some mercy)
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But as clouds will do
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They'll rain down
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First gently (gently) and sweetly (so sweetly)
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Until they silence me
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With a burst of thunder (thunder) and lightning (and lightning)
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And helpless landlocked screaming
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I know God must be agreeing
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It's the worst part of watching
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It's the worst part of watching
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It's the worst part of watching
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It's the worst part
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Landlocked in screaming
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God must be agreeing
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To be helpless is the worst
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Must be the worst part of watching
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The worst part of watching
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Party Of God
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10000 Maniacs |