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I was invading your privacy
It seemed so very right to me
Ah, you'd gained a reputation, you had some fun
While lives were led between what's said
What's expected and what's done
Nobody here paid a bribe to me
Drown your swollen charity in some other one
But sisters, sing me a lament
Brothers, bake me in cement
Ah, you paid to see a train wreck
And boys, you're gonna get one
Lower your quotas
Amend your ways
Everyone noticed you've been
Up for days
Living off sodas
Dressed in halcyon praise
Then you came stirring with ferocity
But still not moved to action
Atrocity by atrocity
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I spoke to you of prosperity
But words just seem absurd and dreams are deafening
Tuneless hum of posterity
Is all we'll listen for and all we'll hear again
Volume and violence
Rang the bells of high finance
In a waning pool of wine
Vintage 1929
Then you came stirring with ferocity
But still not moved to action
Atrocity by atrocity
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I got the banquet circuit blues
In unlaced and broken shoes
Hey, but poor girls need a place
To spend their money too
You came stirring with ferocity
But still not moved to action
Atrocity by atrocity
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