It's just a television wonderland

just one more fairytale about a rich bitch lyin' by the swimming pool

Life is so cool

Easy living when you make the rules

Last Friday was the first time, it only

took about half a minute on the stairway

It was child's play

The odds come out even

when you give up believing in the



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Cold law

Steel claw

Try to get on board you'll find the lock is on the door

and I say no way... no way...

don't try to get out, or there'll be hell to pay!

I don't know who's right, who's wrong

It really doesn't matter when you're lying in the gutter

it's a see-saw

A long hard battle with the cold law

is what you get for messing with the steel claw



The politicians have forgotten this place, except for

flying visits in a black Mercedes on election time

they cross the line

and everybody runs to miss the pantomime

If you could see what's going on around here,

so many people hanging on the edge

crying out for revolution, retrobution

The odds come out even

when you give up believeing in the



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Sometimes I think I'm going crazy

Sometimes I do a line, makes me laugh,

makes me wanna take a joy ride

on the high tide

Sometimes I'm contemplating suicide

Meanwhile, Eddy's on the west coast

I hear he's making out with some sweet senorita up in Frisco

You and I know

The odds come out even

when you give up believing in the



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