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The time to rise has been engaged You`re better best to rearrange I`m talking here to me alone I listen to the finest worksong Your finest hour Another chance has been engaged To throw Thoreau and rearrange You are following this time I beg you not beg to rhyme (blow your horn) Your finest hour (blow your horn) Take your instinct by the reins Your better best to rearrange What we want and what we need Has been confused been confused (blow your horn) Your finest hour (blow your song) (repeat 3rd verse) <HR><p>Hang your collar up inside Hang your dollar on me Listen to the water still Listen to the cause where you are Fed and educated, primitive and wild Welcome to the occupation Here we stand and here we fight All your fallen heroes Held and dyed and skinned alive Listen to the Congress fire Offering the educated primitive and loyal Welcome to the occupation Hang your collar up inside Hang your freedom higher Listen to the buyer still Listen to the Congress Where we propagate confusion Primitive and wild Fire on the hemisphere below Sugar cane and coffee cup Copper, steel and cattle An annotated history the forest for the fire Where we open up the floodgates Freedom reigns supreme Fire on the hemisphere below Listen to me Listen to me Listen to me Listen to me <HR><p>You`re beautiful more beautiful than me You`re honorable more honorable than me Loyal to the Bank of America It`s a sign of the times It`s a sign of the times You`re sharpening stones, walking on coals To improve your business acumen. Sharpening stones, walking on coals, To improve your business acumen. Vested interest united ties, landed gentry rationalize Look who bought the myth, by jingo, buy America It`s a sign of the times it`s a sign of the times You`re sharpening stones, walking on coals To improve your business acumen. Sharpening stones, walking on coals, To improve your business acumen. Enemy sighted, enemy met, I`m addressing the realpolitik Look who bought the myth, by jingo, buy America `Let us not assassinate this man further Senator, you`ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?` You`re sharpening stones, walking on coals To improve your business acumen. Sharpening stones, walking on coals, To improve your business acumen. Enemy sighted, enemy met, I`m addressing the realpolitik You`ve seen start and you`ve seen quit (I`m addressing the table of content) I always thought of you as quick Exhuming McCarthy (Meet me at the book burning) Exhuming McCarthy (Meet me at the book burning) <HR><p>(published in NME, sometime in 1989) `They`re going wild,` the call came in At early morning pre-dawn, then `The followers of chaos out of control They`re numbering the monkeys The monkeys and the monkeys,` The followers of chaos out of control `They`re meeting at the monument,` The call came in the monument To liberty and honor under the honor roll `They`ve gathered up the cages the cages and courageous,` The followers of chaos out of control The call came in to Party Central `Meeting of the green and simple,` Try to tell us something we don`t know `Disturbance at the Heron House` A stampede at the monument To liberty and honor under the honor roll The gathering of grunts and greens Cogs and grunts and hirelings A meeting of a mean idea to hold `When feeding time has come and gone They`ll lose the heart and head for home Try to tell us something we don`t know` Everyone allowed, Everyone allowed <HR><p>(lyrics taken from the lyric sheet of Wire`s _Pink Flag_) There`s something strange going on tonight There`s something going on that`s not quite right Michael`s nervous and the lights are bright There`s something going on that`s not quite right There`s something going on that wasn`t here before Keep your eyes glued to the floor There`s something strange going on tonight There`s something going on that`s not quite right There`s something going on that wasn`t here before Keep your eyes glued to the floor No on

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