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Serve yourself (anthology version) - john lennon - home recording (1980)
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Intro:
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You say you found jesus christ
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Hes the only one
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You say youve found buddha
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Sittin in the sun
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You say you found mohammed
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Facin to the east
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You say you found krishna
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Dancin in the streets
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Well theres somethin missing in this God almighty stew
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And its your mother (your mother, don't forget your mother, lad)
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You got to serve yourself
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Aint nobody gonna do it for you
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You got to serve yourself
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Aint nobody gonna do it for you
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Well you may believe in devils and you may believe in lords
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But if you don't go out and serve yourself, lad, aint no room service here
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Its still the same old story
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A bloody holy war
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A fight for love and glory
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Aint gonna study war no more
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A fight for God and country
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Were gonna set you free
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Well put you back in the stone age
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If you wont be like me - get it?
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You got to serve yourself
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Aint nobody gonna do for you
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You got to serve yourself
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Aint nobody gonna do for you
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Well you may believe in devils and you may believe in lords
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But christ, youre gonna have to serve yourself and that's all there is to it.
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So get right back here its in the bloody fridge. God, when I was a kid.
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Didn't have stuff like this, tv-fuckin dinners and all that crap.
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You fuckin kids are all the fuckin same! Want a fuckin car now...
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Lucky to have a pair of shoes!
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You tell me you found jesus christ
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Well that's great and hes the only one
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You say you just found buddha
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Sittin on his ass in the sun
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You say you found mohammed
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Kneeling on a bloody carpet facin the east
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You say you found krishna
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With a bald head dancin in the street (well, christ, now youre
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Being heard)
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You got to serve yourself
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Aint nobody gonna do for you
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You got to serve yourself
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Aint nobody gonna do for you (that's right, lad, you better get that straight
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Into your fuckin head)
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You got to serve yourself (you know that, who else is gonna do it for you, it
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Aint me I tell you that)
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Well, you may believe in jesus, and you may believe in marx
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And you may believe in marks and spencers and you may believe in bloody
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Woolworths
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But theres something missing in this whole bloody stew
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And its your mother, your poor bloody mother (she worked for you in the
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Back bedroom, full of piss and shit and fuckin midwives. God, you can't
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Forget that awful moment, you know. You should have been in the bloody
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War, lad, and you would know all about it. Well, Ill tell you something.)
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Its still the same old story
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A holy bloody war, you know, with the pope and all that stuff
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A fight for love and glory
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Aint gonna study no more war
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A fight for God and country, and the queen and all that
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Were gonna set you free
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Bomb you back into the fuckin stone age
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If you wont be like me, you know, get down on your knees and pray
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Well theres somethin missing in this God almighty stew
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And its your goddamn mother you dirty little git, now
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Get in there and wash yer ears!
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Note: [this song] was right after dylans song [...] you
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Gotta serve someone, you know - the lord, I suppose, you know.
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So then he was kind of upset about that and it was a dialogue,
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You know. In that sense its fun, I mean you can hear it was
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Fun. He wasnt seriously against it. He showed his anger in
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A way but also [...] his sense of humour. (yoko ono, 1998)
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