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Well outside on the street at 5am you know the world has a different face

And at dawn in the park as the sunbeams break, the drunks sing amazing grace

While the ladies of the night take flight as a big bright light comes crashing

down

You and I put the world to rights, in this forgotten little part of town

Well I heard that they say that the traffic wardens dances dick van Dyke does

Throwing shapes around parking meters, to adored rapturous applause

Singing 5 part harmonies and jumping over cars while others dare to sleep

With this city is my playground, yeah my circus is my street

Singing now, woah the future’s not what it used to be

So will the last one out please turn off the light, turn off the light

Woah the future’s not what it used to be

So will the last one out please turn off the light, turn off the light

When they came to collect the names of the lads who want to sign up for the army

They said they wanna grow up to be a G, gave up on trying be like dad the sparky

Why run around 360, like a dog chasing his tail

Or the schoolgirls dressed like hookers, the hookers dressed like schoolgirls

Singing now, woah the future’s not what it used to be

So will the last one out please turn off the light, turn off the light

Woah the future’s not what it used to be

So will the last one out please turn off the light, turn off the light

Killing and drilling, well it’s all they understand

In the Middle East and Afghanistan

They fight over turf, they fight over land

If you give them a ting-a-ling

While their trigger finger lingers

With the second gun slingers

They fight over that

There’s no unity, just to you and and me

Trying to keep our head above the lunacy

It’s just the way we’re living

And we will never give in

To this -ism schism prison

That all men and women live in

They war over guns, they war over god

War over land and they war over drugs

They war, they war, they war over love

War over which god watches from above

They war over oil, they war over race

Some of them are warring just to save face

They war, they war, they war over debt

If it’s a war they want, it’s a war they’ll get

Singing now, woah the future’s not what it used to be

So will the last one out please turn off the light, turn off the light

Woah the future’s not what it used to be

So will the last one out please turn off the light, turn off the light

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