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Lockdown Blues
03:41
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Are you feeling confused?
Are you locked-down blue?
Driving your car
Drink in a bar
Are you going to shop?
Dance till you drop
Are you going to that café
And have fried eggs today?
What you gonna do?
Lockdown blues
Are you gonna go to a show?
Are you gonna go with the flow?
Are you gonna get on a plane?
Are you gonna fly out to Spain?
To the beach, have a swim
Have some vodka, and gin
What you gonna do?
Lockdown blues
You’re feeling confused
Lockdown blues
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2. |
Poor Man Killer
04:03
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If you live in a council flat
And you’re poor and all of that
With loads of others, same air breathe
Soon for you they will grieve
It’s a poor man killer
Then you won’t have much hope
To escape the gallows rope
Your funeral suit is bespoke
Corona’s got you by the throat
It’s a poor man killer
You got no hope to isolate
That is a rich man’s fate
If you’re poor and you’re old
To coronavirus you’ve been sold
Poor man killer
If you’re poor, poor and old
They’ll put you on hold
But when you’re corona sold
You’re corona sold
Poor man killer
Got no hope, here’s a rope
Funeral suit is bespoke
Got a good chance to croak
Being lucky, only hope
It’s a poor man killer
And if you’re on a poor estate
You don’t get a lucky break
And you’re in a family
The same air you breathe
Poor man killer
If you’re poor, got no chance
It’s a death dance
See the Covid-19 prance
Watch that plague advance
Poor man killer
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3. |
Baboon
02:06
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Have you got immunity?
Will it ever end?
Is there a new strain
Which infects again and again?
Have you got immunity?
Will you get it soon?
The tests say you recatch it
If you’re a baboon
And there is no vaccine
No vaccine in sight
It’s at least two years away
If they get it right
Isolation for eternity
It looks like we are doomed
We can catch it
They’ve done tests on baboons
I’ve really had enough of this Covid-19
Little motherfucker it’s getting boring, and there’s no vaccine
The second wave is coming
It is coming soon
And we can recatch it
They’ve done tests on baboons
That mask you’re wearing, it’s a waste of time
This Covid-19 it is a swine
And we can recatch it
Recatch it, we are doomed
They’ve done the tests, on baboons
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4. |
Out There
02:07
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Don’t go outside, don’t go outside, it’s out there
The fear is there, it’s a nightmare, it’s out there
It lurks about, don’t scream or shout
Watch out
Sneaks up behind, when it’s a mind, it’s out there
You’re Howard Hughes, with snakeskin shoes, it’s out there
All people avoid, phobia, paranoid, it’s out there
Covid-19 you got, you’re feeling shocked, it’s out there
Out there
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5. |
Don't Swallow Bleach
03:36
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You mustn’t swallow toilet cleaner
Covid-19 it’s getting meaner
Kills a virus sends it to hell
But it will kill you as well
Don’t swallow bleach
You I beseech…
Send you straight down to hell
You know that bleach won’t go down well
Whose crazy idea was that?
They must be full, full of crap
On that bottle it says don’t swallow
Don’t be stupid, don’t be hollow
Swallow bleach someone does teach
Don’t follow them I beseech
You’ll need your stomach to be pumped
It might put you off your lunch
Don’t be stupid, don’t be a lump
Someone on you bullshit has dumped
Don’t swallow bleach
You I beseech…
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6. |
Shutdown Blues
02:19
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Cut-throats form a queue
Murders in solitude
Sleep it off on a park bench
Leaving you will be a wrench
Shutdown blues
The church choir sings
The angels with gold rings
Finding someone new to curse
Every year until the hearse
Shutdown blues
Found a place to bury you
Feeling grey, feeling blue
Climbing mountains in the rain
This is doing in my brain
Shutdown blues
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Communist
03:33
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Communist…
I’ll shoot the breeze
And have a sneeze
Come on and shake my hand
I don’t wear masks
Don’t make me laugh
I’m a macho man
I’ll go on protests
There’ll be no contest
Civil liberties infringed
Government control
I’ll wank their pole
Our freedoms are impinged
I’ll spread that disease
If I please
I’ll stick it in
I’ll take my gun
I’ll have some fun
We’re the lunatic fringe
Doctors and nurses
We give them curses
They are communists
They are all liars
They do conspire
This disease does not exist
Communists…
This Covid-19
It is a plot
It must be shot
Let’s shoot it
And communists
It doesn’t even exist
You can always tell
The communists
They’re the ones that wear masks
Spit in their faces
Spit in their faces
Spit in their faces and laugh
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8. |
Wish You Were Here
02:38
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We’re walking down the street
Distance a few feet
And someone starts to sneeze
Another has a wheeze
So I start to queue
I get a call from you
And someone gets too near
I wish that you were here
I should change my mask
Children smile and laugh
Eating an ice cream
I hope it’s virus-clean
They’ve opened up the shops
Still the world has stopped
Never can get near
I wish that you were here
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9. |
Second Wave
02:21
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If all the covidiots unite and fight
This could go on all night
If they all start meeting
Breathe each other’s air
I think I might pull out all my hair
Second wave
That virus it might multiply
Another line of graves
We’ll wipe out the old and sick
A fortune will be saved
I think I’ll pull out my hair
Pull it out today
I think, I think
We’ll have a second wave
Second wave
They go on protest marches
Infect what they can
Overthrow the government
This conspiracy is planned
They’ll keep this virus alive
They’ll breathe each other’s air
I think I’m going to pull out all my hair
Second wave
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Care Home
03:07
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In the care home the virus creeps
From room to room, infection seeps
Care home
Fragile victims it consumes
Leading each one to their doom
Care home
Someone’s mother gasps for breath
Only moments to their death
Someone’s father gasps his last
All his moments in the past
Care home
There’s no visit, die alone
Oh that virus is keen to roam
Keen to visit and advance
Covid-19 with you will dance
Care home
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11. |
Just A Flu
02:37
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It’s just the flu
You know that it’s true
As long as we keep saying it
Some of you think it’s true
As long as we keep saying it
People think it’s true
It’s just… the flu
Experts give you scientific facts
We can be experts to feed you a load of crap
We can justify those facts, make believe it’s true
It’s just… the flu
If we tell you Covid-19 doesn’t exist
That it’s a plot hatched by the communists
And if we tell you this time and time again
If we say it enough you’ll believe it in the end
Scientists don’t believe they wouldn’t share a beer
They’re a bunch of snowflakes, intellectual leftist queers
We’ll get our own experts and make up loads of shit
Because you are a patriot you will believe it
Those people that died would all have died
This Covid-19 is a communist lie
So picket all the hospitals don’t let the nurses in
We cannot let the communists, cannot let them win
It’s flu
You know that it is true…
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12. |
Prison Cell
02:37
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And all of the senators in Rome
And your friend who told you to ring home
Your hat was made from a traffic cone
As his throat was cut he let out a moan
The moon is pink, once it was green
Every syllable uttered sounded obscene
The bank robbery went like a dream
You always played on the losing team
I’m worried this will not end well
Another day in the prison cell
I like the pope, the pope smokes dope
I’ve got the rope around my throat
I think my reaction’s a little extreme
Beam me up Scotty on a laser beam
I’m worried this will not end well
Another day in the prison cell
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13. |
Flatten The Curve
02:53
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Stay in prison, tow the line
Everything will be fine
If you only obey
What you’re told to do today
And the clock, it never stops
Shut the door and it locks
And the money, drying up
Pretty soon we’ll all be fucked
Flatten the curve
Just another week or two
Till that curve is flattened through
Well I know that you are broke
Poverty, on it you choke
Play it straight, play it clean
Poverty, Covid-19
The devil and the deep blue sea
You are fucked by this disease
Don’t be perturbed
We’re going to flatten that curve
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14. |
Strike Us To The Ground
03:29
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You’re caught in a tornado
Fire in your name
It will burn your lungs out
That will be its gain
You’re caught in a hurricane
It don’t make a sound
It waits in the silence
To strike us to the ground
You are like a fire
That just burns today
Hard to ignore you
As you kill away
You wait in the shadows
You don’t make a sound
But you’re burning like a fire
You wait to burn us down
Strike us to the ground
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15. |
Frank Has Passed Away
03:44
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A ray of sunshine passed today
They hang their heads and say
He had no mask for tests they ask
Now he’s passed away
In the eye of the storm
An angel born
Frank has passed away
A ray of sunshine in the darkness
For the injured and impaired
A ray of hope for poor and sick
When there’s nobody there
In the eye of the storm
An angel born
Frank has passed away
Disenfranchised and intoxicated
For them you did care
Frank had no mask, Frank had no mask
And he’s no longer here
In the eye of the storm
An angel born
Frank has passed away
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