They talked to the sister, the father and the mother
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With a microphone in one hand and a chequebook in the other
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And the camera noses in to the tears on her face
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The tears on her face
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The tears on her face
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You can put them back together with your paper and paste
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Stick out your tongue
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Drink down the venom
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She sleeps with the shirt of a late, great country singer
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Stretched out upon her poor jealous husband's pillow
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In time you can turn these obsessions into careers
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While the parents of those kidnapped children start the bidding for their tears
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What would you say?
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What would you do?
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Children and animals two by two
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Give me the needle
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Give me the rope
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We're going to melt them down for pills and soap
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Four and twenty crowbars, jemmy your desire
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Out of the frying pan into the fire
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The king is in the counting house
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Some folk have all the might
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And majesty will run on Bombay Gin and German spite
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They come from lovely people
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(They come from lovely people)
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With a hard line in hypocrisy
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There are tears of mediocrity
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For the fag ends of the aristocracy
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What would you say?
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What would you do?
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Children and animals two by two
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Give me the needle
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Give me the rope
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We're going to melt them down for pills and soap
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Stick out your tongue
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Stick out your tongue
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Drink down the venom
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The sugar-coated pill is getting bitterer still
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You think your country needs you but you know it never will
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So pack up your troubles in a stolen handbag
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Don't dilly dally boys rally 'round the flag
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Give us our daily bread in individual slices
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And something in the daily rag to cancel any crisis
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What would you say?
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What would you do?
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(Did you find out how to lie?)
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Children and animals two by two
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(Did you find out how to cheat?)
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Give me the needle
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(The elite bleat, they're obsolete)
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We're going to melt them down
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Stick out your tongue
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(We're going to melt them down for pills and soap)
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Now if you'd only genuflect
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Stick out your tongue
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Now if you'd only genuflect
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Stick out your tongue
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Stick Out Your Tongue
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| Elvis Costello |
