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[Verse 1]
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 ^ Roger's in the archive looking up casement, Martha's in the government ^ digging up the basement.
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Rebel into representative for the voter. ^ Shadow backbencher couldn't get a word in.
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 ^ Turned up anyway, issues burning. ^ All consuming, drinks in the cabinet
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 ^ Spent a lot of time just examining the building. Drinks on the house? You must be joking
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 ^ Corridors of power cuts toy telephone bill. Long time no see underneath the floorboard
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 ^ Looking for the roots of the family treetops. Toe's in the water but you've only got ten.
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Fingers in the eel pie, poke around tip top. ^ Tunnelling a wormhole Eartha Kitty catfish.
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 ^ Meadow brown peacock, pupa-larva-caterpillar, hibernate in winter of our discotheque. No
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End in sight. More like a spiral ^ coil or curler just unwinding
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Very slowly ^ revealing endless disappearing pipelines
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Genuflecting, bowing deeply. It don't take a weathergirl to see where the wind is 
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Blowing. ^ What the wind is bending

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[Verse 2]
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 ^ Isobars are opening. Sex to midnight. Cabinet shuffling homeward bound.
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 ^ Taking a detour, rendezvous-do. Chapel in the valley of the blown up doll.
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 ^ That's not Martha shunting in a siding. She got homework up to here.
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 ^ Roger's in the footnotes up to his elbones. Verse and chapter disinterred
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 ^ Borrowing a bookcase don't come easy. The weight of the evidence in parenthesis
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Beggars tightly furled belief.
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 ^ Heads on betablocker repetition on the line. ^ Shell shock supertroopers, whirl banking oil palm.
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Intercontinental drift over the rainbow. Over the sea to ska rocker skintone.
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Her suit missed a link and that's not all ^ that he got missing in a thousand years of
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Orthotoxic waste disposal. God proposal jealous guy.
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 ^ Whatever is a girl to do to break the service in its tried and 
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tested and found wanting state of old-boy network stewardship?

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[Verse 3]
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 ^ Little Johnny Aardvark never hurt nobody. Martha friend and Roger too.
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Tone down a little sotto voce some tall order ^ given that four
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minutes is eternity time in the hushed up world of waspish 
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V-signs A-sides sui-C-side sellers ^ of the bad young B-sides
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What's the point ^ of digging deeper 
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just to lay the ghost of Sala ^ Hal-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub?
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 ^ "Don't give up" the dead man cried. "There's more of us than there of you.
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Soon you'll all be on our side forever more, ^ or Lester Young died."
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Fat Girl also blowing all the blues away side dust ain't just dust.
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Trust us like we live forever, ^ broken loose from greystone tether.
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 ^ Keep on tiptoe through the archive. We are dead But you are a-live.
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Martha, yes and Roger too. ^ Until you let the gringos grind you down