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Duran Duran
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God created the world
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Then created the devil to blame for his mistakes
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I closed the door of my hotel room behind me
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It was like closing a chapter in the book of life
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Outside 30 floors below I could hear the police
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Using their sirens like wolf whistles to pick up young girls
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On TV Oliver North his 15 minutes of fame
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Ticking steadily away was being fuzzy about crucial events
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Which had happened a year earlier- what a flake
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But then who isn't
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That was Reagan's defense at least
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The worst thing is how politics begins to leak into your life
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Back in our innocence we used to simply stick two fingers up
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Say "fuck off" that was about all you had to say anyway
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And then go back to the more important business of making music
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So why was I sitting there feeling angry about covert operations
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And illegal aid to the contras
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I mean I'm not even American
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But maybe we all are a little bit
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And then I realized it was just the thought
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That in this particular democracy
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And probably every other one in the world
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There is somebody in power who thinks he is more right
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Then all the people who put him there
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All the people who for once in their lives took an interest
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Outside the wind was howling the who-who's
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From sympathy for the devil
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Round and round the concrete hotel walls and corners
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That was then- this isn't
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