Here's To The Rest Of Your Life testo
Chumbawamba
Testo
Why settle for what we're shown
When there is so much more
Sometimes the book of law
Is only half the story
Means and ends
Deciding where to draw the line
Loss of work in Sellafield homes
Or the threat of cancers yet to come
The choice seems obvious
There is no choice
Only the option of looking outside
This narrow definition of
What you see is all there will ever be
There comes a time--that time is now
When every second, every day
When every action, every though
Will tell the world how you cast your vote
They break our legs
And we say thank you when they offer us crutches
Tired of mild reform
Sick of hand-me-downs
We topple all the theories to the ground
All real change
Must come from below
Our bosses must live in fear
Of the factory floor
And when they smile
And they ask for my support
I'll give them these words
And a bloody nose
You don't help your enemy
When you're at war
There are moments in all of our lives
Tiny sparks still deep inside
When a new-born baby cries
When you're watching clouds in a summer sky
The first time you walked out on strike
Love and sex and holding tight
Things that can't be bought
By promises and votes
I hate the things I love being criminalized
I hate the straight-jacket schools I grew up in
I hate MPs, judges, and magistrates
I hate being taught to base my life on TV stars
I hate being kept waiting by bureaucrats
I hate wars, and all the people who love them
I hate the idea of living on other people's backs
I hate being filed and registered and classified
I hate being watched and monitored
I hate police
I hate the way you talk down at me
I hate being told what to do
I hate you when you don't listen
I hate the way you distort my sexuality with pornography
I hate the pain we inflict on each other, on animals, and on the earth
And I hate how love songs have become cliches
Through endless, shallow repetition
Each angry word
Every cynical put-down
Every song is carefully born
From a hope of something better to come
All jumbled-up
Love and hate and love
Each prompted by the other
For the cause of peace we have to go to war
Refusing to sleep
Whilst there's a world to win
Yet happy to dream
Dreams make the plans to change this world
Not just some future heaven
But today and every day
In our place of work
In the queue for the metro bus
Organize!
Here's the rest of our lives!
(Repeat)
A tiny spark still deep inside
(Repeat)
We can and will run the factories and mills
We can and will educate ourselves
We can and will work the fields
We can and will police ourselves
We can and will run the factories and mills
We can and will educate ourselves
We can and will work the fields
We can and will police ourselves
We can and will create and build
(Repeat)
When there is so much more
Sometimes the book of law
Is only half the story
Means and ends
Deciding where to draw the line
Loss of work in Sellafield homes
Or the threat of cancers yet to come
The choice seems obvious
There is no choice
Only the option of looking outside
This narrow definition of
What you see is all there will ever be
There comes a time--that time is now
When every second, every day
When every action, every though
Will tell the world how you cast your vote
They break our legs
And we say thank you when they offer us crutches
Tired of mild reform
Sick of hand-me-downs
We topple all the theories to the ground
All real change
Must come from below
Our bosses must live in fear
Of the factory floor
And when they smile
And they ask for my support
I'll give them these words
And a bloody nose
You don't help your enemy
When you're at war
There are moments in all of our lives
Tiny sparks still deep inside
When a new-born baby cries
When you're watching clouds in a summer sky
The first time you walked out on strike
Love and sex and holding tight
Things that can't be bought
By promises and votes
I hate the things I love being criminalized
I hate the straight-jacket schools I grew up in
I hate MPs, judges, and magistrates
I hate being taught to base my life on TV stars
I hate being kept waiting by bureaucrats
I hate wars, and all the people who love them
I hate the idea of living on other people's backs
I hate being filed and registered and classified
I hate being watched and monitored
I hate police
I hate the way you talk down at me
I hate being told what to do
I hate you when you don't listen
I hate the way you distort my sexuality with pornography
I hate the pain we inflict on each other, on animals, and on the earth
And I hate how love songs have become cliches
Through endless, shallow repetition
Each angry word
Every cynical put-down
Every song is carefully born
From a hope of something better to come
All jumbled-up
Love and hate and love
Each prompted by the other
For the cause of peace we have to go to war
Refusing to sleep
Whilst there's a world to win
Yet happy to dream
Dreams make the plans to change this world
Not just some future heaven
But today and every day
In our place of work
In the queue for the metro bus
Organize!
Here's the rest of our lives!
(Repeat)
A tiny spark still deep inside
(Repeat)
We can and will run the factories and mills
We can and will educate ourselves
We can and will work the fields
We can and will police ourselves
We can and will run the factories and mills
We can and will educate ourselves
We can and will work the fields
We can and will police ourselves
We can and will create and build
(Repeat)
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.Bella Ciao
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.Mary Mary
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.On the day the Nazi died
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.The Standing Still
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.I get knocked down
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.Homophobia
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.Just Look At Me Now
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.Feel Like I'm Fixin To Die' Rag (Country Joe and The Fish, 1967)
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.Shake Baby Shake
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.Bella (Lied für Carlo Guilliano)
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.Ulrike
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.Nadzeroon El Babo
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.Ladies For Compassionate Lynching
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.Universal Soldier (1966)
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.The Day The Nazi Died
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.Amnesia (Done Lying Down Version)
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.New York Mining Disaster 1941
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.Song Of The Mother In Debt
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.I Still Haven't Found What I Was Looking For
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.I'm In Trouble Again
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.Stitch That (Country & Western Version)
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.Armchair Sport
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.Give The Anarchist A Cigarette
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.This Dress Kills
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.Knit Your Own Balaclava
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.Drip, Drip, Drip
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.William Francis
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.Laughter in a time of war
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.The Bad Squire
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.Amnesia (Album Version)
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.I Never Gave Up
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.Piggies In Revolution 9
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.Waiting, Shouting
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.Passenger List For Doomed Flight #1721
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.All In Vain
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.Amnesia (Single Mix)
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.Behave
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.Michaelangelo
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.Lie Lie Lie Lie
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.Mary, mary
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.Enough Is Enough
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.When I'm Bad
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.The good ship lifestyle
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.All Mixed Up
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.Dumbing Down
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.I'm Not Sorry I Was Having Fun
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.Hey Hey We're The Junkies
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.A Morality Play
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.Stitch That
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.Rappaport's Testament: I Never Gave Up
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.Fight The Alton Bill!
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.Salome (Let's Twist Again)
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.Wormkind
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.Insectkind
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.Sewing Up Crap
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.Smith & Taylor
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.Love Me
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.One Way Or The Other
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.Heysel Stadium
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.Creepy crawling
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.Walking into battle with the lord
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.Rich Popstars Make Good Socialists
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.Studmarks on the Summits
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.The ABCs of Anarchism
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.Brian
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.British Colonialism And The BBC
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.Come On Baby
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.Orienteering
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.The Birmingham Six
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.Scapegoat
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.The Cutty Wren
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.When Alexander met Emma
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.We Want Beans Not Goals
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.LAUGHING (Never Stopped Mix)
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.Desmond
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.Heaven/Hell
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.Eddie The Eagle
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.That's How Grateful We Are
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.Zola Budd
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.Look! No Strings!
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.Bowls
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.R.T.Z. & B.P... Why?
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....And In A Nutshell
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.P.E.
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.One by one
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.Amereicha
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.Horses For Courses
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.WWW Dot
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.Chartist Anthem
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.Commercial Break
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.Slag Aid
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.Back Home
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.Isn't It Horrible?
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.Barry John
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.Jesus In Vegas
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.Mr. Heseltine Meets His Public
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.Tubby Barlow
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.Smart Bomb
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.A Regular Guy
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.Snip Snip Snip
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.Jos
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.Outsider
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.Ah-men
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.Smalltown
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.Chase PCs Flee Attack By Own Dog
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.How To Get Your Band On Television
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.Gobsmacked
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.Desmond Lynam's Sports Trivia
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.Fade away (I don't want to)
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.An Interlude-Beginning To Take It Back
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.Tubthumping (Country & Western Version)
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.Pop Star Kidnap
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.Babbernation
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.Hopscotch
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.We Don't Go To God's House Anymore
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.In 2 Deep Jam
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.Whilst Stocks Last
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.If It Is To Be, It Is Up To Me
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.Learning to love
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.Smash Clause 29!
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.You can (mass trespass, 1932)
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.In The Thick Of It
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.Don't Try This At Home
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.I'm Coming Out
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.Hmmm...
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.The Police Have Been Wonderful
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.Nuclear Power? No Thanks!
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.Cartrouble
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.I Never Gave Up (Cass Mix)
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.Song Of The Government Minister Who Enjoys His Work
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.Kinnochio
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.The Triumph Of General Ludd
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.Tearing Up Zoo
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.Good Afternoon and Welcome to White Hart Lane
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.Kiss, Kiss, Kiss
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.Why Are We Still In Ireland?
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.Ugh, your ugly houses!
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.Eddie Waring
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.One Under Par
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.By & by
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.Her Majesty
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.Harry Goldthorpe
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.There's No Need To Vote NF When There Are Twelve Tory Fascists In The Cabinet
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.The Ballad Of Peoplekind
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.The Best Is Yet To Come (Acoustic Version)
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.Nothing Knocks Me Over
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.That Golden Era
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.The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of Jerry Springer
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.Colliers March
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.Sometimes Plunder
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.Just A Form Of Music
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.The Bowler's Botha, The Batsman's Gooch
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.Oxymoron
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.Fitzwilliam
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.Seven Days
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.Tony Blair
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.Money
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.Sporting Ties
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.Farewell to the Crown
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.Smashing of the van
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.Song For Len Shackleton
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.Morality Play In Three Acts
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.Frickley
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.Jam Tomorrow
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.Leather on Willow, etc.
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.Liberation
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.Unilever
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.Mad Max
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.Love Can Knock You Over
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.Lest We Forget
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.Tills Ring, Crowds Cheer!
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.Song Of The Hardworking Community Registration Officer
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.I'm With Stupid
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.Lying In The Dirt
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.Running Order
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.Groundhopping
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.One-Sided Game
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.Irish Joke
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.Jacob's Ladder
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.A Lament to the Best
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.Without Reason Or Rhyme [The Killing Of Harry Stanley]
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.Sweet F.A.
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.Slap!
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.Jimmy Hill
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.The Incompatibility of Sport and Cosmic Consciousness
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.Asleep
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.Sports
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.Jack Horner
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.Ever Heard the One About the Pacemaker?
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.A Fairy Tale (Real No-Shit)
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.All's Well At Oakwell
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.Song Of The Times
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.Catastrophe Reality
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.Shot
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.Naming Names
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.Rip It Up
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.One Green Hill
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.K-2 (Indian Restaurant)
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.Education (Part II)
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.The Rise and Fall and Rise of Greavsie
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.On Ilkley Moor Baht'at
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.One Way System
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.An Psalm
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.Forgotten
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.More Whitewashing
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.Not Sport
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.Declaring Peace
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.Jingle Smells
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.Shhh
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.Song Of The (Now Determined) Mother
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.Graham Hill
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.I want more
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.I Never Gave Up (Rondo Mix)
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.The Wasteland
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.Rage
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.The Tree Of Knowledge
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.House Plants
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.Knickers
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.Always Tell The Voter What The Voter Wants To Hear
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.Geoff Hurst's Goal
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.Sugar Daddy
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.You Can't Trust Anyone Nowadays
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.Three Years Later
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.Shock! Horror!
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.The Health And Happiness Show
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.Shipbuilding (1983)
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.After Shelley
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.Yup and Under
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.Lay People
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.Disagreement
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.Moses With A Gun
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.Mick McManus' Haircut
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.Dutiful Servants And Political Masters
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.Walking the Penine Way
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.Rubens Has Been Shot!
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.Social Dogma
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.I'm A Winner, Baby
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.The Tennis Racket
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.Better
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.The Bull Fights Back
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.Hear No Bullshit (On Fire Mix)
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.Reuters (1977)
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.The Englishman Abroad
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.Mannequin
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.Awake
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.Tiananmen Square
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.World Turned Upside Down
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.And In A Nutshell
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.Homeless Hotel
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.24. Games Were Fun
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.The Fun In Games
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.It's a Man's Game
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.Uranium Bribery Never Fails
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.Plastic Bullets
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.Pass It Along
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.Heartbreak Hotel
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.Let It Be
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.Education (Part I)
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.Does God Go To The Toilet?
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.Happiness Is Just A Chant Away
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.Benefits of the Game
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.Outfoxed
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.Changing Gears
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.Justice / Injustice
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.Australian Rules Football
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.Memories of Shilts
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.Bob Beamon
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.Learning Karate
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.Chelsea's Back Four
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.Flowers
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.Coca-Colanisation
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.Mountain Biking
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.Indoor League
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.This Year's Thing
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.Remembrance Day
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.L - Isolation
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.Don't Pass Go
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.Somebody Else
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.Shoot
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.Polo
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.Just Us Mix
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.Act With Mother
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.Why Can't We Sing About Something Nice?
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.Invasion
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.Today's Sermon
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.Times of Crisis
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.Lost In Rome
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.Comic-Tragic-Magic
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.Rebel Rebel
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.Last Taxi Ride
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.The Sun
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.Saying No
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.L - Invasion
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.Ugliest Part Of The Body
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.Shin-Paring
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.Face Jumping
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.Drugs
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.Can't Think - Must Work
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.Thorn-EMI Lighting
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.Man Papers His Crack
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.In Praise of Sumo
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.Scare City
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.We Support All Forms of Resistance Against This Racist System (Part II)
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.Home With Me
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.On the Beach
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.Awesome Wheels
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.The Choice Is Yours
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.The Diggers Song
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.Martini People
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.The Worm Turns
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.Salt Fare, North Sea
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.Because I'm a He
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.Younger Moralists
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.Flesh and Blood and Feelings