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It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline
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But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
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Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying
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Over luxury's disappointment so he walks over and he's trying
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To sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her
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That the Third World is just around the corner
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In the Soviet Union a scientist is blinded
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By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded
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That Dr. Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
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At the first hurdle
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In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hear
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Is the sound of people stacking chairs and mopping up spilt beer
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And someone asking questions and basking in the light
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Of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer
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Mixing Pop and Politics he asks me what the use is
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I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses
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While looking down the corridor out to the where the van is waiting
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I'm looking for the Great Leap Forwards
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Jumble sales are organized and pamphlets have been posted
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Even after closing time there's still parties to be hosted
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You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers
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While you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
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One leap forward two leaps back
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Will politics get me the sack?
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Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
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Here comes the future and you can't run from it
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If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it
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Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
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It's a mighty long way down rock nd roll
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From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole
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Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
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If no one happens to understand
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Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman
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Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
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So join the struggle while you may
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The revolution is only a T-shirt away
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Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
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In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
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But this reality so give me some room!
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Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
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Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards (Beam me up Scotty!)
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Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
