Banana Republic (video)

(bass intro)

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Banana republic, septic isle,

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screaming in the suffering sea, it sounds like crying.

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Everywhere I go, oh yeah, everywhere I see

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the black and blue uniforms, police and priests.

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1. And I wonder do you wonder while you're sleeping with your whore,

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that sharing beds with history is like a-licking running sores.

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Forty shades of green, yeah, sixty shades of red,

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heroes going cheap these days, price : a bullet in the head. +CHORUS

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2. Take your hand and lead you up a garden path,

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let me stand aside you and watch you pass.

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Striking up a soldier's song, I know that tune,

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it begs too many questions, and answers, too. + CHORUS

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3. The purple and the pinstripe mutely shake their heads,

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a silence shrieking volumes, a violence worse than they condemn.

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Stab you in the back, yeah, laughing in your face,

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glad to see the place again, it's a pity nothing's changed.

+ CHORUS (bass outro)

(Boomtown Rats)