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Strangers
03:04
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There's a light on the street and it lures you in from the dark
There's a girl on the corner in the blistering heat and she calls your name from afar
Hey mister, will you find my sister?
You know that I miss her, and you promised that I'd see her again
Again
Our apprehension never did us any favours
But didn't mother ever warn you about strangers?
Our apprehension never did us any favours
But didn't mother ever warn you about strangers?
There's a bloke out boozing, I can see him from my house
He takes a couple of steps towards me and falls into his car
His boot meets the pedal, his wheels meet the tarmac
His dented forehead and a dented bollard
Remember to this day
You try to prove that you're okay
But you'll never wash the tears away
'Cause you don't go out in the rain
Our apprehension never did us any favours
But didn't mother ever warn you about strangers?
Our apprehension didn't do us any favours
Because your mother never warned you about strangers
She never warned you about strangers
No, she never warned you about strangers
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You're swimming downstream
Toward the mainstream
Forget your daydream
'Cause you'll never be free of the trouble you've seen
You got your new life
Your cushy cool life
Forget your old life
Free of your make-believe smoke machine now
I know you've got a plan, admit it
But you're never gonna go and commit it
Into your busy day, if only that were okay
Submit to regime
'Cause you're on our team
We got our own scheme
'Cause people like you and me are few and far between
It's a new union
For you and your own
The ladder's up now
And it doesn't really matter to you if we all fall down
I know you've got a plan, admit it
But you're never gonna go and commit it
Into your busy day, if only that were okay
You never told me war was fair
So go ahead, turn the other arse-cheek
And prove to them that you just couldn't care less
I got mine, you'll get yours some other time
I know you've got a plan, admit it
So when you gonna go and commit it?
You never find the time to fit it
Into your busy day
If you only had the balls to do it
You waited too long and you blew it
And you're never gonna make it through it
Now
They say there isn't too much to it
And patience is a virtue
Do you really think they'll help you
To join the lucky rich few?
So bite the hand that feeds you now
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Extendoheart
03:21
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Can't you love yourself before you love your neighbour?
What's your plan of action?
Distract your demons with a favour
You must favour your friends
Don't stop till they call you
Don't stop till they call you
Extendoheart
Wake up, sleepyhead
It's time to face the world again
Drag yourself out of bed
And shake off the hate that fills your head, now
Take the funk from your eyes
And smear it all over your new life
Prepare for your new life
Prepare for your new life
As extendoheart
As extendoheart
As extendoheart
As extendoheart
Extendoheart
Extendoheart
Extendoheart
So now you've angered
Mother Nature again
Now defend yourself
With a blunt-edged needle
The world wants nothing more
Than to plunge its needle right into your
Extendoheart
Extendoheart
Extendoheart
Extendoheart
Extendoheart
Extendoheart
Extendoheart
Extendoheart
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Let's Panic!
04:13
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Another sunny day in paradise
Another empty beach, mass panic, yeah
Rushing out for liquid gold, queueing up for toilet roll
Now watch the crown take control
But the tourists don't mind what they cannot see
Rubbing us raw as long as all is clean
Now we're wondering if we'll ever see the sun again
Take the time to sit and panic, yeah yeah
You wait for when the time is right to get rid of your insanity
Will this be the break we need to build a new society?
Speckled elbows, new meanings for old words
Avoid the conspiraloons in the cafés
Forget about your old life, forget about your old life
For your new one begins now
But the tourists don't mind what they cannot see
Rubbing us raw as long as all is clean
Now we're wondering if we'll ever see the sun again
Take the time to sit and panic, yeah yeah
You wait for when the time is right to get rid of your old TV
Will this be the break we need to build a new society?
Living in fear
For everything that you hold dear
Will die next Friday
So listen to what the nice man tells ya
And now we're wondering if we'll ever see the sun again
Take the time to sit and panic, yeah yeah
You wait for when the time is right to get rid of your insanity
Will this be the break we need to build a new society?
But the tourists don't mind what they cannot see
Rub ourselves raw as long as all is clean
Yeah the tourists don't mind what they don't see
We're rubbed red raw, now make them all come clean
Three, two, one
Let's panic!
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Dreamt of shooting at a mountain last night
Couldn't make it through the spring without a little snowfall
I helped you make it down in time
Stay with me and watch the avalanche from far away
Ah
Ah
We'll wake up and break through the badlands
Step outside and wash our faces in the rain
We'll wake up and break through the badlands
If you never stop moving, you can't stop the pain
Oh
Oh
Take a look through the skylights
Watch our faces in the reflection from the snow
Can you see the hidden meaning
That echoes in our eyes?
Oh
Oh
We'll wake up and break through the badlands
Step outside and wash our faces in the rain
We'll wake up and break through the badlands
If you never stop moving, you can't stop the pain
There's a little life in this strange land
If you care to find it
Look far enough and you'll see
The reason for our being
Them heavy people, they say that we
We perform the miracles
We'll wake up and break through the badlands
Step outside and wash our faces in the rain
We'll wake up and break through the badlands
If you never stop moving, you can't stop the pain
Break through the badlands
Help me to break through these sadlands
Ohh
When we stop moving, the pain ebbs away
Oh, ah ah oh
Oh, ah ah oh
Oh, ah ah oh
Oh, ah ah oh
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