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Artist: Slade
Canonical path: /slade/candidate
Related lyric paths: 6
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Candidate
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Candidate
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See him all alone,
No one seems to like him, he's uncool,
No one seems to like the way he rules,
See them all alone,
Talking of the secrets of the moon,
Spending hard-earned money they'll just lose.
Chorus
What we really want is some way to adjust,
All the values that we have been left to trust,
I just can't believe they are real, very real,
Far from real
See them on their own,
See their cartoon faves in the news,
Storming from the house in ones and two's,
Can you hear them cry,
Making accustions to each other,
Campaigning for the mark of a young mother.
Chorus
What we really want is some way to adjust,
All the values that we have been left to trust,
I just can't believe they are real, very real,
Far from real
What we really want is some way to adjust,
All the values that we have been left to trust,
I just can't believe
They're real, very real,
Far from real,
See them all alone
See them all alone.
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