Ten mysterious photos that can’t be explained
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1. Now the angry old men say it was better back when
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we
used to keep the Aspidistra Flying.
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Now it may be the case that we
can't change our fate,
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but there's
surely no harm in trying.
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And ten mysterious photos
that can't be explained
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are draining away the best of my
day.
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And fragments of songs that I never wrote
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are rotting in the pockets of my
winter coat.
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2. Now the world wide web is a wonderful thing,
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you're
just a click away from all of the facts.
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But there's a downside if
you've a curious mind,
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it's
like heroin for auto-didacts.
+ CHORUS
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+ I've been down rabbit holes, I've seen the rabid trolls,
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cackling
in the twilight of the Age of Reason.
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One thing I've noticed as I
get older,
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common
sense, like art is in the eye of the beholder.
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3. Now the new breed of know-nothings are flooding my screen,
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now
they scare me, they're so goddamn sure.
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They look like reasonable
folks but the next thing you know
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is
they're screaming "I don't want your cure !"
Em G
And ten mysterious photos that can't be explained
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are draining away the best of my
day.
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And fragments of songs that I never wrote
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are rotting in the pockets of my
winter coat.
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+ The conspiracy acts, the cyberchondriacs,
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gripped
by their fear of their own imagination.
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They switched the filters off,
too much is not enough,
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you
know that you can overdose on information.
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+ CHORUS
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(orig. = capo 3rd) (Billy
Bragg)