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White door, ninth floor, silent number, it's autumn on a cold avenue
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Telex intercept, he sips a cigarette, warms up his V. D. You.
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He gets his kicks from microchips, orders from the C. I. A.
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Birobugs and lasers, casual surveillance, boardrooms and communiques
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Don't use your phone and don't use mine
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Don't speak treason, they're tapping the li-ine
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Break-in, stake out, tell it in code
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Everything is legal, anything goes
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The nights gettin' darker and the I'll wind blows
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Your life's in a databank at asio
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Trained in the ghettos of the Lebanon, truncheons and an M16
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Selling skag, a you. N. Flag, now he's trading in securities
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Darwin rendezvous, a B-52, trenchcoat slightly creased
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From a coup in Asia, A you. S. Air Force major
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Buying dirty laundry, swearin' it's for peace
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Infiltration, we'll never know
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Just like Chile but the bruises don't show-ow
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Break-in, stake out, tell it in code
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Everything is legal, anything goes
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The nights get darker and the I'll wind blows
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Your life's in a databank at asio
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Spook behind the bar, unmarked car, rumour hangs like stale perfume
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Flushing under beds, sniffin' out the Reds, nobody can feel immune
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No names, no stress, no blame, no press
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Clean when the dirty work's done
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Allocate a budget, special branch thugs
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Do it for the practice, do it for the fun
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Midnight, flashlight, crash on the door
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Rats on the table, blood on the floor-oor
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Break-in, stake out, tell it in code
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Everything is legal, anything goes
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The nights get darker and the I'll wind blows
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Your life's in a databank at asio
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