Tonart: Db major
Verse 1
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The most unpleasant, precarious,
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G
immortality blueprint was
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A
drafted by the ancient
Egyptians.
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First, you have to get yourself mummified,
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an d that was very expensive,
Bm
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making immortality a monopoly of the truly rich.
immortality in the
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C
Western lands is entirely dependent on
the continued
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existence of your mummy.
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That is why they had their mummies
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hid good.
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Ali and he's got enough
Baraka, enough energy to survive
his first physical death.
Well he won't
get far.
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C#m
He's got no mommy, he's got no names,
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C
he's got nothing.
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What happens to a bum like
that, a nameless,
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Why, demons will swarm all
checkpoint.
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He will be dismembered an d thrown
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into a flaming pit where his soul will be
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ut terly consumed and destroyed.
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While others with sound mummies
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an d the right names
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to drop in the right places
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sail through to the western lands.
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C
There are, course,
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some who just barely
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D
squeeze through their mummies
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is not in a good sound condition.
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These creeps can only live
in the third -rate transient hotels
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Bm
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Just beyond the last checkpoint
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where they can smell the
Charnel
House disposal ovens from
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their skimpy balconies.
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Might as well face facts,
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my mummy is going downhill.
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C#m
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I don't even feel like a human.
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Bm
Cheap job to begin with.
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F
God, maggots is crawling all over.
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or the way that demon guard
looked at me this morning.
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Transient hotels.
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Bm
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And here you are in a luxury con
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do deep in the western land.
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You got no security.
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Some disgruntled former employee
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sneak into your tomb
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and throw asses on your mummy.
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out of it.
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Oh, someone is fucking with my
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mummy.
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Brother, you are fucked.
Let's face it, mummies are
sitting ducks.
No matter who you are, what can happen to your
mummy is a perilous
nightmare.
Floods, volcanoes, earthquakes.
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Perhaps the mummy's best
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friend is an
Egyptologist.
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In museums, they're safe from spiteful enemies,
scavengers and kept at a constant temperature,
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but air raid sirens, it's the
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Blitz.
For
God, for
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Ra's sake, get us into the vaults,
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feed the mummies, without a
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throat, without a tongue.
Kim decides this deal stinks like a dead
camel.
Long dead.
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D
Anyone buying on a thing like that
should have his mummy examined.
The
Johnson's is taking over the
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Western
lands.
We bought it, we built it, we paid for it.
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It's ours and we're gonna take it.
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