The Ghost Of Limehouse Cut
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INTRO
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VERSE 1
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Frogface and Buster
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bickered through their
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plan
As they
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waited in the car park in their
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battered stolen
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van
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Frogface was a lawyer then and
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Buster lady
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bluff
Their
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existential burden was that they
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were not rich e
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nough
They
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coshed him as he came out, checked his wallet for the name
He was
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hogtied in their cellar before they could complain
A
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message was soon relayed via satellite and such
Saying your
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son in there is landfill, sir, unless you
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pay to
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us
VERSE 2
But
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happy days were short-lived; they
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kidnapped the wrong
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man
The
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real one turned up airport-bound, gold
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brick in either
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hand
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Buster, walking home one day, was
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stopped by those who
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steal
She
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gave them lip, they battered her, and
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now she deals on
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wheels
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Frogface sits in parliament, his views are in demand
On
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all official media he states his simple plans
For
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vicious retribution against those evil folk
Whose
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deviance and violence have ceased to
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be a
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joke
VERSE 3
To the
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east side of the city, you can
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bring all life’s mis
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takes
To
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heartless, smoky men who help you
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burnish and e
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rase
To
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here did Frogface go one day with his
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weaknesses on
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show
The
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jeep’s bed down a quiet street, they
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let the hostage
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go
But
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when he told his story, the world exclaimed “So what?!”
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Yours is just another tale, we prefer the one we’ve got
Now
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Frogface double dutiful, wheels his wife to church
Two
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mirrors of our decency which scandal
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must not
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touch
OUTRO
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I’m a ghost,
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I don’t exist
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I wandered off and
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I was not missed
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I watched the rain over
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Limehouse
Cut
A most
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excellent waterway,
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is it not?
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I’m a ghost,
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my story’s told
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Babyfaced old barrel boys lay
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hands upon my soul
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Tethering my dreams to
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Limehouse
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Whose
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waters daily beckon me with
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love both warm and
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tough
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