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The World's End
03:26
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The World’s End
At a loose end where can you go?
Come get four free goes with this cure for an optimist
Night time I’ll bare my sick soul
To an English rose, I’m a thorn and a bitter man
Bring you way down low
I’m sick and sad and a waste of your energy
It’s the world’s end, it’s the world’s end
It’s the world’s end that I’d take you to
It’s the world’s end, it’s the world’s end
It’s the world’s end that I celebrate
Slow down I’ll bore to the bone with my constant drone
Of futility and suicide
You’ll feel old at twenty two and I’ve news for you
It’s a long way down to here
Spin tall tales of woe
Where peace and love are a crime and a battlefield
It’s the world’s end, it’s the world’s end
It’s the world’s end that I’d take you to
To the sun’s death, to the sun’s death
It’s the sun’s death that I call a view
Bring you way down low
It’s sick and sad and a waste of your energy
It’s the darkness, it’s with the darkness
It’s with the darkness that I’ll poison you
It’s your wits end, it’s the quicksand
It’s your wits end that I’ll take you to
To the sun’s death, to the sun’s death
It’s the sun’s death that I call a view
It’s the world’s end, it’s the world’s end
It’s the world’s end that I’d take you to
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The Devil Takes
04:23
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The Devil Takes
The Devil comes for me, takes me piece by piece
Takes my skin and folds it all away
The Devil comes for me, he started with my teeth
Now he wants my hair and knees and feet
But I know I could be fighting with surgery and hooks
I could be fighting with Botox and tucks
I could be fighting with fishy oil and puzzle books
He got into my eyes, he’s fiddling with my size
He brings me stiffness in not at all a good way
He’s furring up my veins, he’s pitching up the pain
Jams my ankles, can’t see or touch my toes
And I know I should be fighting with Omega 3 and bran
Sharks’ cartilage capsules, Glucosamine not Spam
I could be fighting with screenings and scans
He’s slowing up my brain, chilling out my blains
Growing gout and slowing down the flows
He’s crumbling my joints, drying out my loins
Hairing up my orifices and brows
And I, I come out fighting with alcohol and smokes
I come out fighting with sexually unrealistic hopes
I come out fighting with magazines and naps
I come out fighting with ‘what the Hell is that?’s
So please God come for me, save me from my sins
From the Devil, the fall and daytime TV
Save me from this age, this small and lonely cage
Take me where I’m young and lovely still
And I know I should be planning for funerals for friends
Yes I should be planning insurance with free pens
Yes I should be planning to freeze my own head
To freeze my own head
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News
02:28
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News
One Twitter user said ‘it’s all a disgrace’
One Twitter user writes our news
A trainee intern and a cleaner run the place
‘Cause there’s no money left at all
This is how we make the news, payment and content free
This is how we sell the space, editorial and judgement free
We’ve Wikipedia, a quick spell-check on the train
We had a man up in the North
Sponsored content and a wrap-around for phones
Pick us up on your way home
This is how we make the news, opinion and ignorance led
This is where we count the clicks on adverts not knowingly read
Here’s something that no-one ever said but if they had then you’d be cross
This celebrity made some money, the amount will drop your jaw
Here’s an actress who over forty years seems to have aged
Shout your opinion and we’re bound to pick it out
If you’re a bigot or a fool
We don’t judge you because everyone is right
Just send it in we’ll ship it out
This is how we sell the news, by storms and spats and fights
This is how we trade the truth for tweets and clicks and likes
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Unicorns
03:22
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Unicorns
Do goldfish go to Heaven?
Like some parents say
When you believe in angels
Tell me, do unicorns eat hay?
Seems you feel when you find a feather
That they’re watching over you
Me, I only saw a pigeon
And a cat, red in claw and tooth
You’re such a spiritual person
‘Cause you wear hats made by tribes
You revere their ancient medicine and wisdom
Keeps them safe when clearing landmines
So if goldfish go to Heaven
Let the hamsters go to Hell
The parrots perch in Purgatory
Lice liven up Limbo
So let’s all go to Heaven
Be like a day out at the zoo
But me I’m pitching for Valhalla
If I’ve got to kill – yeah it could be you
And you’re such a spiritual person
Hey let’s all save our body hair
And as we float off to Atlantis
We can stuff magic cushions with it there
And you’ll never be alone
In your crystal Tarot home
With what you and Nostradamus know
As you chase after unicorns
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Treatwise
03:06
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Treatwise
Be treatwise
And gamble responsibly
Enjoy a single glass of wine
Occasionally
And when the fun stops, stop
And a sharing bag is for the whole - family
Or re-seal for another day
Or pass round your hipster friends
Bond via small amounts (of chocolate)
Be treatwise
Three chunks of creamy white (a day)
And fifty pence each way
Don’t crash through red food traffic lights
And a payday loan
To help you get by
For a few short days
Until payday
Affordable and flexible
And the industry wants you to buy less
The industry wants you to stay healthy
And the industry wants you to stay within your means
And be treatwise
Eat five fruit and veg a day
And hardly any fried chicken (with secret ingredients)…
Be treatwise
Extra strong lager is not for alcoholics
And high stakes are not for addicts
And the meat comes from smiling farms
And the sugar and caffeine content
Is written on the bottle
Where we all make
Informed decisions
And the industry cares if you get fat
The industry doesn’t want your money
And the industry wants you to cut down and be…
Treatwise
Portion control…
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Take 'Em Out
02:24
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Take ‘Em Out
Take ‘em out, those whinging, wasting poor
Starve ‘em out, those foodbank, fast-food whores
Take ‘em down with iron fist and claw
Kill ‘em all, send them all to war
They take my share price down
I like to watch them drown
There’s just too many around…
Take ‘em out, those free healthcare junkies
Take ‘em out, those public transport monkeys
Take ‘em down, those heavy industry dreamers
Take ‘em down, those banker bashing lefties
They offend my eyes
They take up my time
They don’t even try…
To inherit proper money like me
To go to a proper school and learn like me
To break the rules and make laws for money
To save it offshore like Number One, like me
Take ‘em out, those solar powered scum
Take ‘em out, those tidal windfarm bums
Take ‘em down, those insulation runts
Take ‘em down with their polar bear themed stunts
They want to save the world
Though such a thing’s absurd
They should save themselves…
From conscience to be selfish, to be free
Mis-selling for a bonus, rig the market take a fee
Speculate, accumulate, asset stripping tease
For money-laundering tax evading heroes like me
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