| Do you remember British achievement, and living when times were good?
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| Watching the start of the end of an era, would you go back if you could?
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| When I was younger, the smell of the hunger, in all of the music you played
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| Kept me believing you lived for the lifestyle and not just the cash to be made
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| 'cos it’s a place where people happen, it’s the corner of success
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| Everybody loves you, and you’re never second best
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| The smell of easy money, and you follow it to death
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| I smell… the shit… upon your breath
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| I remember you when you were an Englishman
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| But now you’re turning American, turning American
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| Walking away from the crumbling empire
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| Won’t make it grow anymore
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| Changing your style 'cos the radio tells me
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| How can you sleep? |
| you’re a commercial whore
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| And you’d lick the steaming phallus if it’d offered you a hit
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| Clean you of integrity and then they’ll make you fit
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| You think you’ll glide to stardom then you’ll show them what you’ve got
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| Your pride, your balls, they own your lot
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| I want to be American, I want to be a star
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| You should be over there, you should go far
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| But I don’t want to learn 'cos I know it all now
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| You should be guaranteed to find out how
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| You’ll always be a wanna be, you look too far away…
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| 'cos it’s a place where people happen, it’s the corner of success
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| Everybody loves you and you’re never second best
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| The smell of easy money, and you follow it to death
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| I smell… the shit… upon your breath |