Ladies and gentlemen, just imagine it! Someone comes along, takes everything you own, your space, your house; separates you from your family and then hits you in the face if you say anything different! Well, that's what we've been doing to the Third World for the past 400 years. That's YOU and ME!
You the viewers at home, me in the studio, the pop stars, everyone. That's how we make the Third World, every day, today and every day. If you want any correspondence with the programme, just send your answers - LETTER BOMBS ONLY! - to: BP House, Victoria Street, London, SW1!
Thank you and goodnight! Feed the World, Starve the Rich... goodnight!
- "How to Get Your Band on TV", Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records: Starvation, Charity and Rock & Roll - Lies and Traditions (1986), Chumbawamba
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Wild dogs, can I confess I never wanted this marriage?
Coming home to wife and kids and failed science experiments
Tear down all the laundry lines!
Get the sickness out of me!
- "Wild Dogs: Divorce!", Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head (2009), Jordaan Mason & the Horse Museum
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Say the word and I'll put my guitar down
I'll be sad but at least we'll both get laid
We'll start to fight when I start to resent you
And we'll both agree the thought was nice but I should not have stayed
- "Future 86", Album Minus Band (2005), Bomb the Music Industry!
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Well, I can’t count how many times I’ve been outdone by nihilism
Joined the march that splits an open heart into a schism
I cower at the thought of other people’s expectations
And yet, still hand over mine to them
- "Tenderness", Wide Awake! (2018), Parquet Courts
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At night I hear the shots ring, so I'm a light sleeper, the cost of life, it seems to get cheaper
Out in the desert with my street sweeper, "The war is over", so said the speaker
With the flight suit on, maybe to him, I'm just a pawn
So he can advance
Remember when I used to dance?
Man, all I wanna do is dance
- "Dirty Harry" (featuring Bootie Brown), Demon Days (2005), Gorillaz
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Well, they lived for a while in a very nice style, but it's always the same in the end
They got a divorce as a matter of course, and they parted, the closest of friends
Then the king and the queen went back to the green, but you can never go back there again!
- "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant", The Stranger (1977), Billy Joel
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And all the money I spend is my money again, I'll understand what is said when I'm out with my friends
And at the end of the night
Baby, I'ma gon' drive 'em home
And all the time that I waste repeating the mistakes and the ridiculous taste and the look on my face
I'm gonna take it back
Baby, I don't love you no more
- "I Don't Love You Anymore", Get Warmer (2007), Bomb the Music Industry!
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How stupid is it? I can't talk about it, I gotta sing about it and make a record of my heart
How stupid is it? Won't you gimme a minute? Just come up to me and say hello to my heart
How stupid is it? For all I know you want me too, and maybe you just don't know what to do
Or maybe you're scared to say
"I'm falling for you"
- "El Scorcho", Pinkerton (1996), Weezer
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He's a ghost, he's a god, he's a man, he's a guru
You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan
Designed and directed by his red right hand
- "Red Right Hand", Let Love In (1984), Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
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They'd put us on a railroad
They'd dearly make us pay
For laughing in their faces and making it our way
There's emptiness behind their eyes
There's dust in all their hearts
They just want to steal us all and take us all apart, but not
- "Love My Way", Forever Now (1982), The Psychedelic Furs
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Frozen out of focus, the Sunday crowd
Started dreaming of television turned up too loud
Coded conversation, half baked and tired
Left us sleepy on blacktops burning the motor mile
- "White Trash Heroes", White Trash Heroes (1998), Archers of Loaf
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If you try to knock me, you'll get mocked!
I'll stir fry you in my wok!
Your knees'll start shaking and your fingers pop!
Like a pinch on the neck of Mr. Spock!
- "Intergalactic", Hello Nasty (1998), Beastie Boys
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When you tell me you're afraid that we may die
I said "So what? Everybody's scared of that"
I want you to tell me that you miss me
Want you to hold and hurt and kiss me
- "Triple Dog Dare", Home Video (2021), Lucy Dacus
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Love is all that I can give to you
Love is more than just a game for two
Two in love can make it, take my heart and please don't break it
Love was made for me and you
- "L-O-V-E", L-O-V-E (1965), Nat King Cole
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Through sparrow black wind
A dead crow calls out to its wings
I'm getting weaker, I'm getting thin
I hate how obvious I have been
- "The Black Crow", The Lioness (2000), Songs: Ohia
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Wild dogs, can I confess I never wanted this marriage?
Coming home to wife and kids and failed science experiments
Tear down all the laundry lines!
Get the sickness out of me!
- "Wild Dogs: Divorce!", Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head (2009), Jordaan Mason & the Horse Museum
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Oh, how your bubble's gonna burst, when you meet another nurse
She'll be driving in a hearse
You're gonna need a heap of glue, when they all catch up with you
And they cut you up in two
- "Chick Habit", Chick Habit (1995), April March
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