Billy Bragg : Don't Try This At Home

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I've always been impressed with the girl Who could sing for her supper and get breakfast as well

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That's the way I am, heaven help me She said we don't like peace campaigners round here As she nailed another one to the wall And that's the way I am heaven help me

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Goodbye and good luck to the promises you've broken

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Goodbye and good luck to the rubbish that you've spoken

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Your life has lost its dignity, its beauty and its passion

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You're an accident waiting to happen There you are standing at the bar and you're Giving me grief about the DDR And that chip on your shoulder gets bigger as you get older One of these nights you're gonna get caught It'll give you a pregnant pause for thought You're a dedicated follower of fascism Time up and time out for all the liberties you've taken Time up and time out for all the friends that you've forsaken If you choose to waste away like death is back in fashion You're an accident waiting to happen My tears are so unoriginal I have all the self loathing of a wolf in sheep's clothing In this carnival of carnivores heaven help me Goodbye and good luck to all the promises you've broken Goodbye and good luck to all the rubbish that you've spoken Your life has lost its dignity, its beauty and its passion You're an accident waiting to happen

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I've had relations with girls from many nations

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I've made passes at women of all classes

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And just because you're gay I won't turn you away

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If you stick around, I'm sure that we can find some common ground

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Sexuality! Strong and warm and wild and free

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Sexuality! Your laws do not apply to me A nuclear submarine sinks off the coast of Sweden Headlines give me headaches when I read them I had an uncle who once played for Red Star Belgrade He said that some things are really best left unspoken But I prefer it all to be out in the open Sexuality! Young and warm and wild and free Sexuality! Your laws do not apply to me Sexuality! Don't threaten me with misery Sexuality! I demand equality

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I'm sure that everybody knows how much my body hates me

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It lets me down most every time and makes me rash and hasty

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I feel a total jerk before your naked body of work I'm getting weighed down with all this information Safe sex doesn't mean no sex it just means use your imagination Stop playing with yourselves in hard currency hotels I look like Robert De Niro, I drive a Mitsubishi Zero Sexuality! Young and warm and wild and free Sexuality! Your laws do not apply to me Sexuality! Don't threaten me with misery Sexuality! I demand equality

Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers Leave the light on at the top of the stairs Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky A tree taps on the window pane That feeling smothers me again Daddy is it true that we all have to die At the top of the stairs Is darkness I closed my eyes and when I looked Your name was in the memorial book And what had become of all the things we planned I accepted the commiserations Of all your friends and your relations But there's some things I still don't understand You were so tall How could you fall? Some photographs of a summer's day A little boy's lifetime away Is all I've left of everything we've done Like a pale moon in a sunny sky Death gazes down as I pass by To remind me that I'm but my father's son I offer up to you This tribute I offer up to you This tank park salute

Billy Bragg : Don't Try This At Home 1991

Accident Waiting To Happen

Sexuality

Tank Park Salute