Tonart: Eb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
mows the lawn and Mother peels the potatoes
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Grandma lays the table alone
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And adjusts a photograph
of the unknown soldier
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In this Holy of Holies, the Home
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And from the TV an un
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watched voice
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Suggests the answer is to plant
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more trees
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The scrawl on the wall says what
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about the workers
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And the voice of the people says
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more salt please
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Mother shakes her head and reads aloud
Verse 2
from the newspaper
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As Father puts another
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lock on the door
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And reflects upon the violent
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times that we are living in
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While chatting with the
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wife beater next door
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If paradise to you is
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cheap beer and overtime
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Home truths are easily
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missed
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football fan knows
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It only takes five fingers to form a fist
Verse 3
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And when it rains here it
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rains so hard
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But never hard enough to
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wash away the sorrow
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I'll trade my love today
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for a greater love tomorrow
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The lonely child looks out and
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dreams of in dependence
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From this family life sentence
Verse 4
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Mother sees but does not
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read the peeling posters
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And can't believe that
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there's a world to be won
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But in the public schools
and in the public houses
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The Battle of Britain goes on
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The constant promise of jam tomorrow
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Is the New Breed's litany
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and verse
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If it takes another war to fill
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the churches of England
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Then the world the meek inherit,
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what will it be worth
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Mother fights the tears and Father,
Verse 5
his sense of outrage
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And attempts to justify the sacrifice
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To pass their creed down to
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'Anything for the quiet life'
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In the Land of a Thousand Doses
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Where nostalgia is the opium of the age
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Our place in History is as
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Clock watchers, old timers,
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window shoppers
Outro 1
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