Tonalità: G# minor
Verse 1
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One- fifty one- thousand
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Six- hundred people die
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every day on Earth
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And if that's not a reason to cry
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Well, it's an awful lot
of paperwork
It's your first day at work
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How've you settled in?
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Shaken off the rigor mortis? Sorted
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Out your pencil tin?
Welcome to our newest
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resident skeleton
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What better heaven than a desk
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To spend forever in? Now, your
body may be
Shrivelled up and worthless
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At least we know your funeral
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Will be a civil ser vice
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Persons so superfluous are living
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On the surface it's nothing
so perturbing
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We're just trimming off the surplus
It isn't murder if you
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Cause a little accident
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We prefer to word it as
Some "mortal middle
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management"
There's the door
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We've got millions of applicants
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Dying for some cor porate
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Incorporeal entanglement
Verse 2
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Everything living has to die
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But to die, you need not apply
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We'll find you when your
time's through
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Take a number, wait in line
Live your life and we'll be right
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behind you
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Nothing's certain but death and taxes
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So I guess you'd better
get some practice
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Nothing's certain
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but death and taxes
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So I guess you'd better
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So I guess you'd better
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You've got targets to prove yourself
Verse 3
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Here's some targets,
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peruse yourself
Shoo a few humans off the
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Mortal shelf to the floor
We'll be polishing the coffins as
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You off a couple more
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We need a botanist, two paleontologists
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A newspaper columnist whose views
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May be communist
A shoe salesman,
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possible balloon hobbyist
Just another couple popped clogs
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For your shop ping list
No slacking on the grave packing
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Ever more to kill death
row deplorables
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Incurables and "sort of ill"
every person
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Animal and plant has a form to fill
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We've got departments
solely tasked
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With killing chlorophyll so, of course
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You will toe the lifeline
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and behave
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Or you'll be filing dandelions before
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You've had your tea break
Humanity's in balance
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If that balance isn't repaid
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Interns can be inhumed
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and replaced
Verse 4
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Everything living has to die
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But to die, you need not apply
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We'll find you when your
time's through
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Take a number, wait in line
Live your life and we'll be
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right behind you
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Nothing's certain but death and taxes
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So I guess you'd better get
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some practice
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Nothing's certain but death and taxes
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So I guess you'd better
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So I guess you'd better
Verse 5
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Ashes to ashes, nine to five
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The light in the tunnel has been
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privatised
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Robes were so behind the times
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These ob ituaries don't give any
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Time for scythes
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Population moderation's not
the worst fate
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Your occupation's the salvation of
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The hearse trade
for generations
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We've been racing for
the first place
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But we've spent the cen turies in
Verse 6
Second to the birth rate
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Everything living has to die
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Db
But to die, you need not apply
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We'll find you when your
time's through
B#dim
Db
Take a number, wait in line
Live your life and we'll be right
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behind you
B#dim
Nothing's certain but death and taxes
Db
So I guess you'd better
get some practice
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Nothing's certain
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but death and taxes
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So I guess you'd better
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So I guess you'd better
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Dearly indentured We are
Verse 7
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gathered here today
to pay tribute
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To the life of the departed
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And to welcome him to the office
May he rest employed
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