Chemical Cosh

Fatima Mansions' Viva Dead Ponies album

Released in 1990 by Kitchenware Records

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Alcohol, heroin, T.H.C.
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Care in the impotent community
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Resignation, irony, under scrutiny, so events can slip
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From memory of history, a voluntary dictatorship
 
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Chemical 
 
(cosh!)
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Chemical 
 
(cosh!)
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Chemical 
 
(cosh!
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)
 
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One kind for the rich, and one for the poor
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The only distinction is the thickness of the front door
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Unless it makes you act up, the law won’t mind
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You play the game, this land is yours, the warden is blind
 
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Chemical 
 
(cosh!)
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Chemical 
 
(cosh!)
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It’s the only kind we got (cosh!)
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If you won’t come across  
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They will have it known you’re mad if you don’t fit their equation
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They will have you for not being rich or body-tax evasion
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And they’ll pay some stoned stockbroker’s son
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To phone and say, “I’m coming ’round and bringing my machine gun!”
 
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Chemical 
 
(cosh!)
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Chemical 
 
(cosh!)
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It’s a stab in the neck and a boot in the chops
 
From the earth-loving decade which denim forgot  
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