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Teenage Wildlife

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Teenage Wildlife

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Well, how come you only want tomorrow

With its promise of something hard to do

A real life adventure

Worth more than pieces of gold

Blue skies above and sun

On your arms strength in your stride

And hope in those squeaky clean eyes

You'll get chilly receptions everywhere you go

Blinded with desire, guess the season is on

So you train by shadow boxing

Search for the truth

But it's all, but it's all used up

Break open your million dollar weapon

And push your luck, still you push

Still you push your luck

A broken nosed mogul are you

One of the new wave boys

Same old thing in brand new drag

Comes sweeping into view, oh-ooh

As ugly as a teenage millionaire

Pretending it's a whizz kid world

You'll take me aside, and say

Well, David, what shall I do?

They wait for me in the hallway

I'll say

Don't ask me, I don't know any hallways

But they move in numbers

And they've got me in a corner

I feel like a group of one, no-no

They can't do this to me

I'm not some piece of teenage wildlife

Those midwives to history

Put on their bloody robes

The word is that the hunted one

Is out there on his own

You're alone for maybe the last time

And you breathe for a long time

Then you howl like a wolf in a trap

And you dare not look behind

You fall to the ground like a leaf from the tree

And look up one time at that vast blue sky

Scream out aloud as they shoot you down

No no, I'm not a piece of teenage wildlife

I'm not a piece of teenage wildlife

And no one will have seen

And no one will confess

The fingerprints will prove

That you coudn't pass the test

There'll be others on the line filing past

Who'll whisper low

I miss you he really had to go

Well each to his own, he was

Another piece of teenage wildlife, oh-oh-oh-ohh

Another piece of teenage wildlife, oh-oh-oh-ohh

Another piece of teenage wild

Wild

Wild

Wild

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