I Should Say Something

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Well it was only this morning that 
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I realised
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my conscience's been sleeping 
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while I've been alive
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There's things in the past that I 
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let pass me by
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and now I regret that I never did 
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stop to ask why

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A man with the bag and the walking 
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stick limps up and down my road
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The kids in the cafe they point and
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 laugh where is their moral code
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I should say something but I say 
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nothing I haven't got the nerve
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He's in the twilight years of his 
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life this ain't what he deserves

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A high street fright on a Friday 
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night, a coward hits his lady
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He cries out "Bitch, you must be 
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mad, why'd you disobey me?"
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And we should do something but we
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 do nothing the public eye turns 
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blind
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Domestic violence is met with 
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silence in apathetic times

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And would she have said yes, when
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 wearing her white dress
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if violence was included in his 
vows?
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I'm sure that she hates it, but 
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she tolerates it
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she's married to him now

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A starving girl cries on TV, 
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dying in a third world nightmare
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Slouching back we sympathise from 
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the comfort of our armchairs
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We should give something but we 
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give nothing only a little loose 
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change
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It's quite appalling when tears 
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are falling more often than the rain

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And if you see a mother swear at 
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her poor innocent child
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Do you ever stop and say to her 
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why are you so vile
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That kid will grow up to be a 
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fuck-up just like his dear young 
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mum
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His little heart is falling apart 
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under your spiteful tongue

[Chorus]
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And does this kid deserve this, 
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born into a right mess
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The sad thing is he's not the only 
one
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And I'm sure that he hates it, 
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but he tolerates it
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A boy can't choose his mum

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