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The Old Man Smiled
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Throbbing Gristle
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Will you die for me?
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Do you love me enough to give up your life?
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Standing here in the desert
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The crumbling city
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How much do you love me?
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Can the world be as sad as it seems?
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At this the old man smiled
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Sitting there in Tangier
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Scars running from his wrist to his elbow
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Perhaps I'll buy his book today
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And I look at the boy with me hand on his thigh
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As I move to the bed in the corner
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And he started to smile
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A plaintive smile of the boy as he lies on the bed
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And the old man smiled as his
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Prick started to twitch twitch twitch
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And little drops felt out and fell to the floor
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And he looked to the side
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Wondering what to do with his knowledge
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Cold cold water in the bowl by the bed on the floor
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23 days and 23 hours of the day
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And the old man smiled as the being swelled and the blood came
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As he stuck the needle in his arm
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Watching the blood burning and turning in the glass
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Wondering where he'd be sitting tomorrow
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Wondering which table his person would pass that day
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Sitting in a café in Tangier
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And down to his cable came Captain Clark
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He'd worked on the ferry for 23 years and a day
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Taking the junkies and the babies and the corpses to Spain
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Looking at the coffins in a line across the water
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You sink if you're dead
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Cold cold water
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A cloud up above
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And everyone's equal if it rains on you
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And the old man smiled
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And his arm bent as he paid the bill
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So I walked round the corner
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To a room in the Bowery
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And the boy was bent double naked on the floor
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Rubbing himself with some kind of cream
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And is this all a dream
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Look at the blind men
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Sitting in a row with white sticks
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Takking at the TV screen
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And they try to eat us
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By the broken bed
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They're always mad
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And Captain Clark welcomes you aboard
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Flight 23 from New York to Mayami
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And it crashes in a forest
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Burning bodies growing clod
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People spewing blood from their faces
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Screaming "Why me?"ย "Why?"ย
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And everyone says I'm mad
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And everyone says I'm mad
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The always say I'm mad
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And I see myself in the gutter and the water
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With the water wing gangrene dangling myself
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Cos we really want to slaughter
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Looking wide-eyed and so confused at the wall
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It's gone on so long I wonder just who is here
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Cold cold water
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Cold cold water
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And the old man smiled as he walked back to the café
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Drinking coffee as his friends just stood around
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Can the world be as sad as it seems?
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Do you love me?
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With my knife against your throat
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It could only be me
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You would only do this for me
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And the old man smiled
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Just the same as before
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Slowly getting old arranging his things
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Making business neat and tidy
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Sitting in a café in Tangier
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That's the way the world ends
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With a whimper
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