Page type: lyric reference
Artist: PJ Harvey
Canonical path: /pj-harvey/the-ministry-of-social-affairs
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Ministry of Social Affairs
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The Ministry of Social Affairs
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See them sitting in the rain
As the sky is darkening
Three lines of traffic edge past
The ministry of social affairs
At a junction, on the ground
An amputee and a pregnant hound
Sit by young men with withered arms
As if death had already passed
Through every alleyway and left
A million beggars’ silhouettes
Near where the money-changers sit
By their locked glass cabinets
What’s happened? Let’s go and ask
The ministry of social affairs
Near where the money-changers sit
By their locked glass cabinets
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