[ti:Paint A Vulgar Picture]
[ar:The Smiths]
[al:Complete]
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[00:00.53]Paint A Vulgar Picture - The Smiths
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[00:28.21]At the record company meeting
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[00:32.62]On their hands - a dead star
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[00:36.17]And oh  the plans they weave
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[00:41.08]And oh  the sickening greed
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[00:48.30]At the record company party
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[00:52.75]On their hands - a dead star
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[00:56.12]The sycophantic slags all say :
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[01:00.27]"I knew him first  and I knew him well"
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[01:06.00]Re-issue   Re-package   Re-package
[01:09.16]Re-evaluate the songs
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[01:13.78]Double-pack with a photograph
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[01:18.05]Extra Track (and a tacky badge)
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[01:26.29]A-list  playlist
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[01:27.80]"Please them   please them  "
[01:29.54]"Please them  "
[01:30.41](sadly  THIS was your life)
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[01:33.25]But you could have said no
[01:35.79]If you'd wanted to
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[01:37.38]You could have said no
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[01:40.74]If you'd wanted to
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[01:43.08]BPI  MTV  BBC
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[01:45.86]"Please them   Please them  "
[01:47.70](sadly this was your life)
[01:50.04]
[01:50.77]But you could have said no
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[01:53.25]If you'd wanted to
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[01:55.83]You could have walked away
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[01:58.97]   Couldn't you
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[02:04.76]I touched you at the soundcheck
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[02:06.98]You had no real way of knowing
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[02:10.30]In my heart I begged "Take me with you
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[02:15.85]I don't care where you're going   "
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[02:20.62]But to you I was faceless
[02:22.59]I was fawning  I was boring
[02:24.56]Just a child from those ugly new houses
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[02:27.61]Who could never begin to know
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[02:33.27]Who could never really know
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[03:18.71]Oh
[03:19.10]Best of   Most of
[03:20.63]Satiate the need
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[03:21.97]Slip them into different sleeves
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[03:25.73]Buy both  and feel deceived
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[03:30.90]Climber - new entry  re-entry
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[03:35.96]World tour   ("media whore")
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[03:38.15]"Please the Press in Belgium  "
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[03:40.65](THIS was your life   )
[03:41.85]
[03:42.84]And when it fails to recoup
[03:45.49]Well  maybe :
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[03:48.19]You just haven't earned it yet  baby
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[03:55.07]I walked a pace behind you at the soundcheck
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[03:59.15]You're just the same as I am
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[04:02.83]What makes most people feel happy
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[04:07.50]Leads us headlong into harm
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[04:12.45]So  in my bedroom in those 'ugly new houses'
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[04:16.00]I danced my legs down to the knees
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[04:20.26]But me and my 'true love'
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[04:25.37]Will never meet again
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[04:32.82]At the record company meeting
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[04:36.33]On their hands - at last   - a dead star
[04:40.62]But they can never taint you in my eyes
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[04:44.93]No  they can never touch you now
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[04:50.36]No  they cannot hurt you  my darling
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[04:54.25]They cannot touch you now
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[04:57.95]But me and my 'true love'
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[05:02.29]Will never meet again