Lyrics Graham Parker

Graham Parker

Empty Lives

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I'm just a tick in a box on a questionnaire

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Another moment that flashes into nowhere

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A brand name on a pill that get's you there, ah ah ah ah

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I'm getting nothing and expecting oblivion

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Thepast ain't even worth livin in

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Its just a nail that keeps being driven in ah ah ah ah

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I'm cold blooded and completely relaxed

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I'm breaking legs and avoiding the facts

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On the up escalator going down all the cracks, yeahah ah ah ah

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You are the dummies of another frightened nation

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I am a candidate for elevation

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But when I wokeup this morning I'd lost all sensation

D7

All sensation

Emc am

So get them, get him, but don't get me

Bm em c

Ah uh ah ah can't hear your cries

Am bm c

So don't get me to fill up your empty lives

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I I i I ives empty lives

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Your empty lives empty lives

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Be obedient, there is no escape

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Forms to fill, time to kill love death and rape

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Sleep baby sleep, don't let nothing awaken you ahhhhhhhh

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Don't look for tomorrow, it's given you the slip

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That's all contained on a silicon chip

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I'm losing shape for the eighties feeling everybody's grip slip

D7

Everybody's grip slip

Em c am

So get them, get him, but don't get me

Bm em c

Ah uh ah ah can't hear your cries

Am bm c

So don't get me to fill up your empty lives

Em d

I I I I ives empty lives

C

Just there waiting to be filled

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With someone else's stronger will

Am c

Just can't reason to survive with empty empty

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You got the empty empty, you got the empty empty, empty lives!

Yeah!

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Bring me water, bring me cocaine

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Bring me something lethal, something that leaves a stain

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But please don't make me feel that emptiness again

D7

Feel the emptyness again

Em c am

So get them, get him, but don't get me

Bm em c

Ah uh ah ah get fat it's your size but

Am bm c

Don't get me to fill up your empty

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Don't get me to fill up your empty

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Don't get me to fill up your empty lives

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I I ii I I I ives your empty lives

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Your empty lives