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Twelfth Night
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Twelfth Night
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Collectors Item
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Sequences 16:21
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And it seems my time has passed
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Before me until now
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In sequences of moments
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And now I see this poster
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They seem to need me anyway
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I'll take the shilling sign
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I'll make a positive move
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To be an action man
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The woman seem to want us to go
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And so I can't refuse
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So I find myself in a country somewhere
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Where mayhem's madman minions
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All march around a square
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Unquestioning obedience
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Is the order of the day
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Your friends are coloured khaki
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And your enemies are grey
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THE SERGEANT-MAJOR'S PEP-TALK
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"Alright my likely lads
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You've left your mums and dads, now
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Our glorious leaders start a war
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To protect the 'ole of 'umankind
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That's why they always stay be'ind
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What d'ya mean
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'Isn't it wrong to kill?'
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Not if the top men say so!
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Where you're going sonny
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General's top chap
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Next to him you're a small piece of crap
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If none of us went out of fight
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We'd never prove our side was right
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Now would we?
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ATTENTION!"
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THE COLONEL'S PEP-TALK
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"The front line is a pretty bloody place to be
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That's why you go instead of me
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Now I'd hate to send you all off thinking
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That if you get yours you're going to fret
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About your families, so don't
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They'll get some lovely souvenirs
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A nice bronze plaque
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On which will be your name
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You'll get free crutches if you end up lame
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'Though the numbers of dead
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Will contain many zeros
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The survivors will return
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To a land fit for heroes
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Now would I lie to you?
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PRESENT ARMS!
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Put next to a young boy
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In a knee-deep trench
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Whose hand even trembles
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When he keeps it clenched
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We attack tomorrow
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In dawn's early light
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And as this sinks in
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I'm so scared
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I can't wait for it and tonight
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To be over
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ALRIGHT MEN: OVER THE TOP WE GO!
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I can't make it
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I just can't take it
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I trip, strumbling
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Caught in the barbed wire
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Amongst the heat
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And smoke of the crossfire
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It's madness, madness
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On a station platform
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Full of stretchered flesh and bone
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Legacy of how easy it is
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To destroy whatever's grown
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Well maybe there's a reason
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That is worthy of a name
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Just sick illusions
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That I suppose will happen again
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Well, next time they ask for men
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At least I'm beyond recall
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I didn't gain my self-respect
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I didn't gain anything at all
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If hate and war could solve anything
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Don't you think they'd have solved it
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A long time ago?
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There's good and evil in all of us
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It's up to you alone
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Which you follow
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I know which is my cause from now on
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The only one worth sacrifice
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The only one I would have remain
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When I'm gone -
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The flags we weave
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Only deceive
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We must believe
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We must believe ... IN LOVE
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BASS AND KEYBOARDS : CLIVE MITTEN
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DRUMS AND PERCUSSION : BRIAN DEVOIL
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GUITAR : ANDY REVELL
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KEYBOARDS : RICK BATTERSBY
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VOCALS : GEOFF MANN
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WRITTEN BY : ANDY, BRIAN, CLIVE, RICK AND GEOFF
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ORIGINALLY RELEASED ON : 'LIVE AND LET LIVE' MFN.18 Jan 1984
16 going on 17, Lyrics onscreen
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