What is your destiny? the policewoman said (20% amnesia)
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The word that she wanted was destination I'm afraid (20% amnesia)
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This is your future boy, this is your fate (20% amnesia)
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And you're obsolete and they can't afford to educate you (20% amnesia)
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In his bedtime boot boy jersey
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Ringing up some fantasy tart
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Give me strength or give me mercy
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Life intimidates art
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[Chorus:]
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Give me strength or give me mercy
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Don't let me lose heart
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From rage to anaesthesia
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Twenty percent amnesia
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Were you passed out on the sofa (20% amnesia)
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While justice was bartered by a drunken oaf? (20% amnesia)
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This is all your glorious country thinks of your life (20% amnesia)
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Stripped Jack naked with a Stanley knife (20% amnesia)
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So the German Queen went home again
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But she couldn't find forgiveness
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They made a fist of her hand of friendship
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But it's only business
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[Chorus]
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The wine you drink has never seen a grape
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And now your sci-fi suit has lost its shape
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But its a dangerous game that comedy plays
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Sometimes it tells you the truth, sometimes it delays it
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Think back, think back if you still can
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When the trumpet sounded and the world began
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Somebody said "We must have won"
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So they started burying the bogeyman
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Mister Gorbachov came cap in hand (20% amnesia)
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From a bankrupt land to a bankrupt land (20% amnesia)
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Mister Gorbachov and some other fella (20% amnesia)
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Were taken to a show called "Cinderella" (20% amnesia)
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It wasn't an accident, it wasn't a mystery (20% amnesia)
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It was calculated and the rest is history (20% amnesia)
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You don't have to listen to me
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That's the triumph of free will
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When there are promises to break
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And dreams to kill
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[Chorus]
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20% Amnesia
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| Elvis Costello |
