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Signal fading, listen to what I'm saying |
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Testing, testing |
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This better be worth all of the breath I'm wasting |
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Barricaded in the talk radio station |
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Hostage taken |
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The red "On Air" light shines on |
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Something cheaper that passes for free speech |
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Will have to do |
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Hear him coming through loud and clear |
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Trickling in your ear |
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He'll tell you anything you want to hear |
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The tape starts running |
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He's going to tell you something |
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The strings start strumming |
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Another humdrum conundrum |
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Signing off now |
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But there's one thing I should have said |
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"The hostage will end up dead" |
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It's just a comedy |
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The hostage is me |
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So pay the ransom |
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Beyond the run-out groove |
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Get my wife down here |
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A helicopter on the roof |
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No police marksman |
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Mystery voices |
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Drowned out by too much choice |
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That's not to mention |
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The sad waste of this wonderful invention |
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Libraries filled up with failed ideas |
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There's nothing more for me there |
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I trust in tender ink and gentle airs |
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Do those drug dealers still polish women made of wax? |
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Gangsters and world leaders |
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Require the same protection from attack |
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From this distance it's hard to tell the difference |
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Between a king and a jack |
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Between a poet and hack |
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