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L o n -don calling to the faraway towns,

now war is declared and battle come down. London calling to the un-derworld, come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls. London calling, now don’t look to us, phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust. London calling, see we ain’t got no swing, ‘cept for the reign of that truncheon thing. The ice age is coming, the sun’s zooming in, meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin, engines stop running but I have no fear ‘cause London is burning and I live by the river. London calling to the imitation zone, forget it brother, you can go at it alone. London calling to the zombies of death, quit holding out and draw another breath.

London calling and I don’t wanna shout but while we were talking I saw you nodding out. London calling,

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got no high, except for that one with the

yellowy eyes. The ice age is coming, the sun’s zoom-ing in, engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin. A nuclear error but I have no fear ‘cause London is drowning and I, I live by the river. The ice age is coming, the sun’s zooming in, engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin. A nuclear error but I have no fear ‘cause London is drowning and I, I live by the river. Now get this, London calling, yes, I was there, too and you know what they said? Well, some of it was true. London calling at the top of the dial and after all this, won’t you give me a smile? London Calling, I never felt so much alike.I went and burnt my bridges at the weekend and now theres nothing left but another week to end. And a sick and sunken soul in a drunken body like

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mine from London bridge I swim east along the tide. She says I wont wait I wont wait and now she tells me that she wants me. She says I wont wait I wont wait, and now she tells me that she wants me, and wont ya take me. When battered heads dissemble and descend into a mess upon the city, when bleeding hearts awake from single beds and paint themselves so very pretty. Oh from London Bridge you know its not such a bad sight oh no no, shuddered hard at those memories of those filthy nights we spent. I never wanted to be the one who just came and went oh lover you know I cant afford your game oh lover no I cant afford your game. She said, when battered heads..... When bleeding

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hearts...... when you’re just 18, you never win and no, it’s not right. Well from London Bridge it’s not such a bad sight, woahh, I wont wait I wont wait and now she tells me that she wants me.She says I wont wait, I wont wait and now she tells me that she wants me and that she loves me, oh take me home, take me home, woah wont you take me home, come on take me home. At night they would go walking ‘til the breaking of the day, the morning is for sleeping… Through the dark streets they go searching to seek God in their own way, save the nighttime for your weeping… Your weeping. Singing la lalalala la le… and the night over London rang. So we rode

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