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Artist: X-ray Spex
Canonical path: /x-ray-spex/plastic-bag
Related lyric paths: 6
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Plastic Bag
Read Plastic Bag lyrics by X-ray Spex on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Plastic Bag
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1977 and we are going mad
It's 1977 and we've seen too many ads
1977 and we're gonna show them all
That apathy's a drag
My mind is like a plastic bag
That corresponds to all those ads
It sucks up all the rubbish
That is fed in through by ear
I eat Kleenex for breakfast
And use soft hygienic Weetabix
To dry my tears
My mind is like a switchboard
With crossed and tangled lines
Contented with confusion
That is plugged into my head
I don't know what's going on
It's the operator's job, not mine
I said
My dreams I daren't remember
Or tell you what I've seen
I've dreamt that I was Hitler
The ruler of the sea
The ruler of the universe
The ruler of the supermarket
And even fatalistic me
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X-ray Spex performs "Plastic Bag", and this lyric page sits inside the X-ray Spex catalog on LyroVerse.
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