| The streets are doing a war dance
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| As their sight is restored to the blind
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| And I’m sifting trash on the offchance
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| That there might be something to find
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| And Mary lets her fingers do the walking
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| Her baby’s nearly due
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| She’s listening but no-one's talking
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| At the citizen’s advice bureau
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| And Joe is down on the dole-queue
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| He should have signed on yesterday
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| Even if he was a carpenter and she was his lady
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| He still wouldn’t be able to make it pay
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| No
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| And he don’t believe in angels
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| She’s been seeing another man
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| Infidelity runs in the family
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| But that wasn’t a part of the plan
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| And shepherds watch the flicks by night
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| At the King’s Cross all night show
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| Something’s trying to catch their eyes
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| But they’re too grossed out to know
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| And the three kings travel like three ships a-sailing
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| They’ve got some gifts he’ll need
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| Cocaine for sniffing, money for corruption, and a whole load of videos of I
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| Love Lucy
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| But the king of the country he’s getting frightened
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| He doesn’t want to be another man’s pawn
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| And he crushes the beer can between his hands
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| He sees his fate, the clown yells Checkmate
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| And another star is born
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| But the baby is killed in an instant
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| As though his whole life were a dream
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| Though his book sells well and he pulls out the stops
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| Everyone knows he’s a hyped-up hasbeen
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| And the t-shirts just embarrass
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| And thought become memories after a while
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| He’s looking so much older now
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| It’s hard to belive that that was style
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| And he throws his cloak out to his fan
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| It’s his last chance sacrifice
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| The girls are crawling a cut-glass sea
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| No-one even wants to look twice
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| Cos the circle’s all but full now
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| But the stalls are empty for the latest son
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| Who just smiles and says
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| Give my regards to Fleet Street, I’ve gotta run
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| The streets are doing a war dance
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| As their sight is restored to the blind
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| And I’m sifting trash on the offchance
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| That there might be something to find… |