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The world is going down
like a lover leaving town
like a lorry off a cliff
like a captain with his ship
Everyone is tired
from being badly wired
like a clown that is attired...
in a shroud
and the people with the secrets
are talking much too loud.
like a gypsy picking pockets in a crowd
and then nothing softly goes
because nothing’s ever right
It’s hard to count your change
in a blinding flash of light,
so you’d better hold on tight
Yes, the world is on a stretcher
while the details all went missing
from a vagrant scarlet letter,
and it won’t get any better,
until she takes off her sweater
in the hot moonlight
on a beach so far away
that even on a plane
you can’t get there in a day
And I wouldn’t have it any other way
And I wouldn’t have it any other way
And I wouldn’t have it any other way
And I wouldn’t have it any other way
It’s a rumor on the wind
that you will never hear again
like dinner with the clones
when you’re restless to your bones
and your comfort has a jones
up its sleeve
Someone’s coming soon
and they’re going to fix it all
while bankers climb the wall
and wait for rent boys in a stall
They’re going to change religions
and their politics as well
and then the black sails swell
from a hot wind out of Hell
and you know they aren’t leaving here alone
Kennedy’s got Krushchev on the phone
the accountants and the lawyers
are moving to new quarters
as soon as the evidence gets read
cause after that, the hedge funds want them dead
And I wouldn’t have it any other way
And I wouldn’t have it any other way
And I wouldn’t have it any other way
And I wouldn’t have it any other way
The people with the money
are all acting funny
because their currency is counterfeit.
They stole that money legally
once they made the laws agree,
but I think you soon will see
that nothing is the same as what it was,
and then you hear the latest buzz
The one who counts the chickens
is on the way to Rome
cause the Vatican’s got chickens of their own
And Tel Aviv is gonna grieve cause most of them are gay
and they can’t reproduce, and there’s no more to say
It was fun while it lasted, and that was way too long,
but it was long enough and... Palestine is gone
Yeah, sometimes it gets away from you
all those evil things they do
and put so many people through
until the sacred cows came home
and their cities turned to grass,
and then it was their ass
And I wouldn’t have it any other way
And I wouldn’t have it any other way
And I wouldn’t have it any other way
And I wouldn’t have it any other way
Some things are better left unsaid
if you don’t want to wind up dead
The truth will find you with your stuff
when it gets tired of your guff
and then Macbeth said, Hold! Enough!
Perhaps my meaning isn’t clear
you’re waiting for the coast to clear
and all those murdered children gone
except the memory lingers on,
and you can’t get away
because none of it’s okay
Someone will come who you don’t like
to put your head up on a pike
and make a documentary
and that will soon be history
which you cannot revise
There never was that holocaust
German lives are what got lost,
and what do you think that will cost?
when the lawyers and accountants have their say?
God got involved when you put the ball in play
and...
I wouldn’t have it any other way
I wouldn’t have it any other way
I wouldn’t have it any other way
I wouldn’t have it any other way
