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Somewhere downtown a pretty girl kneels

Offers her shoplifts and a handful of pills

These are the tricks and the rest of her skills

Takes what she wants, and the rest she just steals

He speaks preaching deep swallows of rum

Your head is beating like a big bass drum

And she wishes he was mute not just dumb

When the

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It'’s a drag saluting that starry flag

I'’d rather go blind for keeping my mind

They use it just like a gag

So here’s to the anger

every man

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He lays back and starts to repent

All about some Hong Kong correspondent

Till the carbine fell silent and spent

Never thought he could be so eloquent

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For every harlot and each puritan

Pull off their wings stick them on a pin

Just let the money roll in

It’'s a drag saluting that starry rag

I’d rather go blind for speaking my mind

They use it just like a gag

So here'’s to the anger, first let me hang

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For every harlot and each puritan

Pull off their wings..pin

Just let the money roll in

The hands of the helpless are raised

You dabble with secrets of praise

The people stand up and gaze

By the secrets that you haven’'t raised

It’s a drag saluting that starry rag

I'’d rather go blind for speaking my mind

They use it just like a gag

So here’'s to the anger, just let it hang

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Saluting the perfect crime

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