Mary Champion

Harried by the horrid clamour of battle,
hardly time to think of the fear -
yet filled with it-
they press forward.
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It's Spring and the sky's sprung a leak.
On and off, it's been raining all week.
But the warm April showers
have sprung the spring flowers
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1984
I wanna be a bitch,
a superstar type bitch,
a grade-A, neat sulphuric acid, pure shit-stirring bitch.
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When you've lost the best,
the rest
could vaporise
before your eyes,
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The prophets always promised that God would save the world
and we've been waiting for a long time, now,
waiting for a guy
to come down from the sky
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I never loved you and that's why I liked you so much.
I never craved your approval or burned for your touch.
You never drained me, demanding what I cannot give.
I could enjoy you and share you and still want to live.
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I understand the unity
of all I know.
I know all the diversity;
the ways to go.
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(or to understand is to wish you'd never bothered)

I studied all the time to understand
the reasons why our lives get out of hand,
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1987

There is nothing new under the sun,
but a fresh light falls on it everyday.
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Babe, I know the things that you have been,
I can guess the bad times that you've seen,
but I know it's hard to be alone
and you've been dragged through Hell to get back home.
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Oh, Honey you've lit such a dangerous fuse,
cos this is a lady who does not like to lose.
I spent most of my life trying to make myself good,
didn't do what I wanted, mostly did what I should.
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You're so scared and so lonely,
you don't know which way you should turn.
There's so much that you don't understand
and so much you must learn.
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I've thought so long about it,
trying hard to understand
the thrill that travels through me
any time I touch your hand.
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They say there's lots o' fishes in the deep blue sea,
so how come, when I'm fishing, I can't find no fish for me?
I spin my line and lay my bait,
but all I do is sit and wait.
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Well, the King of Rock'n'Roll
met the ancient Queen of Soul,
and she looked him in the eye,
and she said ‘You're just the guy.
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I haven't a reason to love you;
it's just that I do.
There's nobody nowhere that no way
can move me like you.
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There's something that it's hard to live without,
in face of all the tears and all the doubt.
There's something that I need, now,
like a junkie needs a fix.
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The beautiful people live in California
and the dutiful people live here.
I am one of the dutiful people,
everything that I do's insincere.
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I was down and I wanted to die.
‘Won't you let me? ' I started to cry,
when a voice in my head
said, ‘You're already dead,
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Oh, Doctor, I don't fit this life I'm in.
But I can't break away, cos that's a sin.
Help me accept a life without a goal.
Prescribe some pills to shrivel up my soul.
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