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SECONDS (WAR)

Takes a second to say goodbye
Say goodbye, oh, oh, oh
It takes a second to say goodbye
Say goodbye, oh, oh, oh, say bye bye...
Where you going to now...

Lightning flashes across the sky
East to west, do or die
Like a thief in the night
See the world by candlelight.

Fall, rise and...Fall, rise and...

In an apartment on Time Square
You can assemble them anywhere
Held to ransom, hell to pay
A revolution everyday
USSR, GDR, London, New York, Peking
It's the puppets, It's the puppets
Who pull the strings

Fall, rise and...Fall, rise and...

Say goodbye, say goodbye
Say goodbye, say goodbye
Say goodbye

It takes a second to say goodbye
Say goodbye, oh, oh, oh
Push the button and pull the plug
Say goodbye, oh, oh, oh

Fall, rise and...Fall, rise and...

And they're doing the atomic bomb
Do they know where the dance comes from
Yes they're doing the atomic bomb
They want you to sing along
Say goodbye, say goodbye
Say goodbye
Say goodbye.

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VAN DIEMEN'S LAND (RATTLE & HUM)

Hold me now, oh hold me now
'til this hour has gone around
And I'm gone on the rising tide
For to face Van Diemen's land

It's a bitter pill I swallow here
To be rent from one so dear
We fought for justice and not for gain
But the magistrate sent me away

Now kings will rule and the poor will toil
And tear their hands as they tear the soil
But a day will come in this dawning age
When an honest man sees an honest wage

Still the gunman rules and widows pay
A scarlet coat now a black beret
They thought that blood and sacrifice
Could out of death bring forth a life

Hold me now, oh hold me now
'til this hour has gone around
And I'm gone on the rising tide
For to face Van Diemen's land

NUMB (Zooropa)
Don't move
Don't talk out of time
Don't think
Don't worry 
Everything's just fine
Just fine

Don't grab
Don't clutch
Don't hope for too much
Don't breathe
Don't achieve
Or grieve without leave

Don't check
Just balance on the fence
Don't answer
Don't ask
Don't try and make sense

Don't whisper
Don't talk
Don't run if you can walk
Don't cheat, compete
Don't miss the one beat

Don't travel by train
Don't eat
Don't spill
Don't piss in the drain
Don't make a will

Don't fill out any forms
Don't compensate
Don't cower
Don't crawl
Don't come around late
Don't hover at the gate

Don't take it on board
Don't fall on your sword
Just play another chord
If you feel you're getting bored
                                             I feel numb
                                             I feel numb
                                             Too much is not enough
                                             I feel numb
Don't change your brand                      Gimme what you got
Don't listen to the band	                   
Don't gape                                   Gimme what I don't get
Don't ape
Don't change your shape                      Gimme some more
Have another grape
                                             Too much is not enough
                                             I feel numb
                                             I feel numb
                                             Gimme some more
                                             A piece of me, baby
                                             I feel numb
Don't plead
Don't bridle
Don't shackle
Don't grind                                  Gimme some more
Don't curve
Don't swerve                                 I feel numb		
Lie, die, serve	                             Gimme some more
Don't theorize, realise, polarise            I feel numb
Chance, dance,dismiss, apologise             Gimme what you got
                                             Gimme what I don't get
                                             Gimme what you got
                                             Too much is not enough
Don't spy                                    I feel numb
Don't lie
Don't try
Imply
Detain
Explain
Start again                                  I feel numb
                                             I feel numb
Don't triumph
Don't coax
Don't cling		
Don't hoax
Don't freak
Peak
Don't leak
Don't speak                                  I feel numb
                                             I feel numb
Don't project
Don't connect
Protect
Don't expect
Suggest
                                             I feel numb
Don't project
Don't connect
Protect
Don't expect
Suggest
                                             I feel numb
Don't struggle
Don't jerk
Don't collar
Don't work
Don't wish
Don't fish
Don't teach
Don't reach
                                             I feel numb
Don't borrow                                 Too much is not enough
Don't break                                  I feel numb
Don't fence
Don't steal
Don't pass
Don't press
Don't try
Don't feel
                                             Gimme some more
Don't touch                                  I feel numb
Don't dive
Don't suffer
Don't rhyme
Don't fantasize
Don't rise
Don't lie
                                             I feel numb
Don't project
Don't connect
Protect                                      I feel numb
Don't expect
Suggest

Don't project
Don't connect
Protect                                      I feel numb
Don't expect
Suggest

I feel numb