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Artist: Motörhead
Canonical path: /motorhead/you-better-swim
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You Better Swim
Read You Better Swim lyrics by Motörhead on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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You Better Swim
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I got no reason to be paranoid
What's on the hook that's what I avoid
I was born underwater without a sound
With my friends in the drink and the sea all around
You better swim
Baby, you better swim
You better swim like a tigershark
Or I'm gonna do you in
I'm short and I'm tall and I'm black and I'm white
Sometimes I'll be wrong, sometimes I'll be right
I'm higher than a seal, and I'm bad to the bone
You go looking for touble, but you come alone
You better swim
Baby, you better swim
You better swim like a tigershark
Or I'm gonna do you in
Come on spongey!
I see them come, and I see them go
I see big things and big people that nobody knows
I'm talking at pictures and I'm paintin 'em black
I'm telling you, fish-face, you ain't never coming back
You better swim
Baby, you better swim
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