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Conway Judge's avatar

Cancel this, cancel that

Don't discuss

– or question that

Be afraid

Don't offend

Paper-mache

Let's pretend

Lipstick pretty

Putty good

Bubble gum

Together stood

The most magnificent looking chair

Golden splender

With leather flair

Springs and metal

Twisted knots

It all appears

A million bucks

But when you go to sit on it

It falls apart into little bits

And you get shards and daggers in your arse

Welted faces

Shattered glass

Lying there you feel so wronged

The mirage vanished

Siren songs

Led astray

Shattered rocks

What was wrong

With what was got

Wooden chairs

And tarnished chips

Shut away

Thrown in pits

Cast aside

No light of day

Cancelled to make

The new one stay.

And now we have a whole world sitting on golden chairs, falling to bits each day and every day.

Because we cancelled all the sturdy ones

And sold them lipstick and bubble gum

Dressed in gold

Wrapped in leather

Feeling oh so very clever

...But not anymore.

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nymusicdaily's avatar

bob marley channeling his inner russian: "dem belly full but mi hungry, a hungry man is an angry man"

but your song is exquisite, can you translate the lyrics for us?

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