| Workhouse?
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| Yeah? |
| What do you want?
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| Information
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| Who the fuck do you think you are? |
| You never fucking stop. |
| Always wanting
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| something for nothing. |
| OK. |
| I’ll give you want you want. |
| I’ll give you
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| information
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| All these songs about Christ, spooks and personal vendettas
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| Organ donations, there’s a mini operetta
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| Are people gonna say you’ve gone off your rocker
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| Well, I’m the brightest thing on the roster
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| And I sleep well when I turn out the light
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| I’m like an off-duty comedian at the end of a bad night
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| Easy to like admire, difficult to love
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| You’ve gotta believe me when I say I never wanted to be liked
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| And I defy the curfew
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| A sense of humour is the most overrated virtue
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| Get off your knees you grovelling bastards
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| This is Oliver twist pissing over Britannia
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| 200 years of Tin Pan Alley
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| I learned good from a king thief mentor
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| Newgate, Broadstreet, Langdales Distillery
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| Papist threats and no popery
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| It’s a beautiful night again
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| So paint the wall white again
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| Brutality for the kids
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| Oliver Twist
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| There was this gang who I used to run with
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| Ragamuffins, urchin scum, spivs
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| Looking good comes in handy
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| When you’re dipping in the pockets of a dandy
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| And there’s treason in the air, it’s just a leap of faith
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| There’s murder in the air at Rillington Place
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| A Christie lives in Soho
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| This is the Oliver Twist Manifesto
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| Totality for the kids
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| Oliver Twist
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| I’m operating now under four different names
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| I can use anyone of them, anytime again
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| And I’ve never been one to hold a grudge
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| Twists has turned vicious
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| What if all the malevolent cripples
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| The Raspberry ripples
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| Are just putting it on?
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| And they’re the brightest of all of the people
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| Oliver Twist, vaudeville Spook mentalist
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| Disappear into a pea souper
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| Swooping down on your back
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| Coming out of a cold snap
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| Into a pea souper
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| A cartarista
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| It was meant to be great
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| But it’s gone wrong again
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| It’s a beautiful night
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| So paint the wall white again
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| Get of your knees
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| 'Cos Christie lives
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| It’s a beautiful night for Treason
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| Oliver Twist
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| Oliver Twist |