The Campaign for Real Rock
by EDWYN COLLINS

INTRO
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1st VERSET
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Don't try so hard to be different
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The cracks are beginning to show
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You drift like a cloud through the festival crowd
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In a frock coat from Saville Row
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You've just been an all-night party
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Where I have to admit it takes pluck
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To go out on the floor and proclaim "What a bore"
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In a T-shirt that reads "Disco Sucks"
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Yes, here he comes, the not-so-young
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Pretender to the Throne
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He's singing "Rag, Momma, Rag"
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Won't you give that poor dog a bone?
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And he's wondering why we can't connect
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When he's sworn to us that he's totally wrecked
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On the rustic charm that he affects
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On a public schoolboy whim
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With a raggle taggle plastic gypsy
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Robert Zimmerframe
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With a synthesized accordian
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A-scramblin' up my brain
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With a fiddle-dee-dee a fiddle on high
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Excuse me folks while I kiss the sky
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Or at any rate give it one more try
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before I
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die
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before I



SOLO
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2nd VERSET
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The overrated hit the stage
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Overpaid and over here
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And their idea of counter-culture's
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Momma's charge account at Sears
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And they're wondering why we can't connect
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With the ritual of the trashed guitar
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One more paltry empty gesture
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The ashes of a burned out star
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Yes here they come, both old and young
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A contact low or high
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The gathering of the tribes descending
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Vultures from a caustic sky
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The rotting carcase of July
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An ugly sun hung out to dry
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You gorgeous hippy dreams are dying
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Your frazzled brains are putrifying
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Repackaged, sold and sanitizied
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The devil's music exorcised
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You live, you die, you lie, you lie, you
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die          perpetuate the
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lie
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perpetuate the
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lie
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perpetuate the
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lie
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Just to perpetuate the
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lie
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Yes yes yes it's the summer festival the truly detestable summer festival

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Yes yes yes it's the summer festival the truly detestable summer festival

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IMPROVISATION : B


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