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Numbers turned to money ain't it funny how we're built
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To spend the whole of our lives running number crunching on assumption
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There's reason in repeating rhymes and throwing keys and swapping wives as
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Long as it's within the privacy of our own private lives
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Stuck with no direction seeking everyone's attention
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All for his or her affection for life cover and collection
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No Viagra, no erection, no insurance, no protection
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And no cure and no prevention did you ever think to mention
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The smaller house, the smaller town where banal gossip does the rounds
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Giant fish in tiny ponds where nothings really going on
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And everyone knows everyone and everybody's goings on
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And everyone wants everyone to try the fuck to get along
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A. N. X. I. E. T. Why?
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The booze'll cut you loose if even for a day or 2 or 3
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Or 4 or 5 or 6 or 10 you'll never be the same again
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People won't remember you, your children and your children's too
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As we elope in cars and planes to dig the hole for their remains
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A. N. X. I. E. T. Why do I feel so inane and so uptight?
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A. N. X. I. E. T. Why do I feel so inane and so uptight?
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I hope I sleep tonight
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I hope I sleep tonight
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I hope I sleep tonight
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I hope I sleep tonight
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So then you change the channel turn the cheek and look the other way
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Your life now on hiatus checks the status of your friends who say
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"It's terrible about those banks. It's terrible but to be frank
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It's terrible those people died, let's see what's on the other side."
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And no one cares cause no one minds cause everybody's filled their time
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With everything that's going on and on and on and on and on
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And on until the end of time 'til we're gone and the blood runs dry
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Growing up and getting older just another culture vulture.