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From: bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (Bill Kelly)
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Subject: Best lyrics
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Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 14:53:44 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  8 14:53:44 1984
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I like these lyrics from the new XTC album, The Big Express.  Looks like
Andy Partridge expected this outcome in the U.S. Presidential election.
The song itself is appropriately subdued.

       *This World Over*
Ah well, that's this world over.
Ah well, new one begun.

Will you smile like any mother
As you bathe the brand new twins?
Will you sing about the missiles
As you dry odd-numbered limbs?

Ah well, that's this world over.
Ah well, next one begins.

Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land?
About the leader with the famous face?
Will you them that the reason nothing grows in the Garden anymore
Is because he wanted to win the craziest race?

Will you smile like any father
With your children on a Sunday hike?
When you get to a sea of rubble
And they ask what was London like?

Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land?
And how a child through the Virgin came?
Will you tell them that the reason why we murdered everything on the
   surface of the world
Is so we can stand right up and say we did it in His name?

That's this world over...over and out.
-- 

Bill Kelly    "Working for paper and for iron."
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