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You Don't Get Me
03:26
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YOU DON’T GET ME
You get theoretical
You get how e is mc squared
You get strategical
You get how he who had won had dared
You get numerical
You get 2 4 1, nought-y
You get alphabetical
You get Y I H U, O G
You get the tree of life, its branches of philosophy
You get Adam, you get Eve, but you don’t get me
You get complimentary
You get words worth their weight in gold
You get documentary
You get how each life dies to be told
You get commentary
You get looking up and down the knows
You get inventory
You get labelled like meat or clothes
You get time, you get space, you get your name and face in history
You get three wishes, but it’s so vicious that you don’t get me
You get malls, you get calls, you get Peters to pay Pauls
You get Marx, you get god, you get work, you get odd
You get min, you get max, you get ticks, you get tax
You get in, you get out, you get stuff, you get nowt
You get sick, you get votes, you get woe, you get jokes
You get cold, you get cough, you get on, you get off
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IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU #1
Amputees, refugees
The eyes that cannot cry
Collapsing house values
Nail bomb in the cottage pie
A racist or a rapist
The glut of traffic cones
The evil glow in the marrow
Of the dead dictator’s bones
It’s all about you
It’s all about you, you, you!
The choking air pollution
That makes the mountains puke
The unwritten unsent letter
The fake factory dispute
STDs, HIV
The sniper in the trees
Ingredients label on the junk food jar
The plague of killer fleas
It’s all about you
It’s all about you, you, you!
In a mirrored echo chamber
Surface over-kissed
You stay in sharp focus
All else is fog and mist
Preaching toleranting
But live hand-under-fist
Phone set to tunnel vision
Dial N for neo-narcissist
- Nothing else rings true
It’s all about you
It’s all about you, you, you
It’s all about you
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XXX
02:17
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XXX
Christmas did not come
Santa did not visit
Just lucre-lenders and landlords
Going, “Gizzit, gizzit, gizzit”
Told to die like a champ
Don’t live life like a bum
The rain falls mainly on your fireworks
And Christmas did not come.
Easter’s been cancelled
Jesus ain’t coming back
Tin-heads agree, uniform decree:
“Attack, attack, attack”
Night shifts in new factories
Night rallies in the square
Don’t look in graves or in hillside caves;
Jesus, he ain’t there.
No lovers’ celebration
No day for Valentine
Drunken brokenhearters croak’n’
Whine on wine and wine
Romeo’s roving green eye
Stabbed by Juliet’s cutlery
Divorce courts working overtime
Valentine’s in therapy.
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IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU #2
Amputees, refugees
The eyes that cannot cry
Collapsing house values
Nail bomb in the cottage pie
The racist and the rapist
The glut of traffic cones
The evil glow in the marrow
Of the dead dictator’s bones
It’s all about you
It’s all about you
The choking air pollution
That makes the mountains puke
The lottery betting cretins
The fake factory dispute
STDs, HIV
The sniper in the trees
The baby hanging in the drain
The swarm of killer fleas
It’s all about you
It’s all about you
In a mirrored echo chamber
Surface over-kissed
You stay in sharp focus
All else is fog and mist
Preaching toleranting
But live hand-under-fist
Phone set to tunnel vision
Dial N for neo-narcissist
- Nothing else rings true
It’s all about you
It’s all about you, you, you
It’s all about you
In your safe space echo chamber
It’s ‘Agree’ or ‘Cease And Desist’
The crowds outside club themselves to death
And your name is on the list
Hooked up to your force-feed of trivia
Climb the ladder of celebrity
Getting higher gets you divvier
You say there’s no mystery
- You haven’t got a clue
It’s all about you
It’s all about you, you, you
It’s all about you
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