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Artist: Emily Haines And The Soft Skeleton
Canonical path: /emily-haines-and-the-soft-skeleton/anarchy-in-the-uk
Related lyric paths: 6
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Anarchy in the UK
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Anarchy in the UK
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I've figured out how to paint by numbers
by one shade of lipstick
To easily amused to be a poetic or a mystic
contented clipping coupons from the tabloids for redemption
for attention
I was seventeen, sat on the lap of a local rebel
he was living in a world so safe he had to look for trouble
I thought, 'how unlucky is he to be so overprotected
and neglected'
he said
I wanna be anarchy
I've always been here, it's been like i never existed
overlooked by the authorities, who sanitize the district
suddenly they're onto me and i can't keep a secret
they always find it
When i was 17 i thought i had a cause to champion
I was hopeful and naive, it was easy to believe in
I thought how hard can it be?
I'm not afraid of giving everything
Everything
I'd give anything for passion
I, I'm already free
I wanna be anarchy
I wanna be anarchy
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