Intro:
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Night is down in insect town
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I'm sitting here glued to the glowing tube
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Tedious, tedium, flowing slow
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I'm crying for something I could really use
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We're worker ants, or ants with wings
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Saying "God I'm high" or "Christ, I'm late"
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Asking girls and women
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"Won't you show us the way
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To crumple sheets and naughtier things? "
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But it's sad, so sad
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The old people never had not quite so bad
(not this way, anyway)
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And it,s sad, sad, sad
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The sadness of a long dead star on late night TV
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The sadness of shooting away your bloom
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And of old crumpled men in their workday suits
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And telephones ringing in empty rooms
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All the birds have flown from the uptown
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And a family I know has built an ark
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And newspaper headlines read bad and stark
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But is sad, so sad
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The old people never had not quite so bad.
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And it,s sad, sad, sad
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The sadness of a long dead star on late night TV
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The sadness of shooting away your bloom
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And of old crumpled men in their workday suits
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And telephones ringing in empty rooms (ACÁ CAMBIA RITMO, SE VUELVE MÁS SKA)
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Stengen stengen, scabadobade ||
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Stengen stengen, scabadobade || x 2
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Stengen stengen, scabadobade ||
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Scabadubade scabadubade ||
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People of Babylon, if you want to be wrong
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You've got to be strong
If not you'll go down
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Down, down down
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You can bite the hands that feeds you
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Spit in the face of those who needs you
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But when you're old, who is gonna feed you
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When you're on your own?
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I hear my black brothers every day
Saying how they've been put down in so many ways
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Well, what about us Rasta?
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Some of us been treated just the same way
I look around and all I see is
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White trash in a Babylon
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White trash in a London
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White trash right here in Buenos Aires town
Ska, Ska...
G O
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People of the Argentine
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You eat your meat everyday
And you dress so fine
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What about your brothers in Africa
Dying, starving
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All of the time?
Well you can bite the hand...
I look around and all I see is
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White trash in Birmingham
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White trash in Twinckenham
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White trash where I live in Hurlingham