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Nick Cave & The Bad Seed
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Oh, what we once thought we had, we didn't
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And what we have now will, will never be that way again
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So we call upon the author to explain
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Our myxomatoid kids spraddle the streets
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Weve shunned them from the greasy grind
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The poor little things they look so sad and old
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As they mount us from behind
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I ask them to desist and to refrain
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And then we call upon the author to explain
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Well, a rosary clutched in his hand
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He died with tubes up his nose
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And a cabal of angels with, with finger cymbals
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Chanted his name in code
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We shook our fists at the punishing rain
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And we called upon the author to explain
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He said, everything is messed up 'round here
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Everything is banal and jejune
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Theres a planetary conspiracy against the likes of you and me
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In this idiot constituency of the moon
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Well, he knew exactly who to blame
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And we call upon the author to explain
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Well, prolix, prolix
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Nothing a pair of scissors cant fix
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Well I, I go guruing down the street
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And young people gather 'round my feet
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And they ask me things but I dont know where to start
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They ignite the powder trail straight to my fathers heart
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And yeah, once again I call upon the author to explain
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Yeah, we call upon the author to explain
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Well, who is this great burdensome slavering dog thing
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That mediocres my every thought?
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I feel like a vacuum cleaner, a complete sucker
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Its fucked up and he is a fucker
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But what an enormous and encyclopedic brain
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I call upon the author to explain
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Yeah, we call upon the author to explain, alright, yeah
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Well, rampant discrimination
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Mass poverty, third world debt
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Infectious disease, global inequality
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And deepening socio-economic divisions
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Well, it does in your brain
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We call upon the author to explain
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Oh, now hang on, my friend Doug is tapping on the window
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Hey, Doug, how you been?
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Well, he brings me a book on holocaust poetry
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Complete with pictures and then he tells me to get ready for the rain
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And we call upon the author to explain
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Well, you know I say prolix, prolix
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Some a pair of scissors cant fix
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Bukowski was a jerk, Berryman was the best
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He wrote like wet paper mach but he went the Hemingway
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Weirdly on wings and with maximum pain
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We call upon the author to explain
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Yeah well, I call upon the author to explain
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Yeah well, down in my bolt hole I see they've published
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Another volume of unreconstructed rubbish
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Well, the waves, the waves were soldiers moving
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Well, thank you, ya thank you, thank you
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And again I call upon the author to explain
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Yeah, I call upon the author to explain
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I call upon the author to explain
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Yeah, we call upon the author to explain
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I said, prolix, prolix
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There's nothing a pair of scissors cant fix
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