Keating! movie - Power lyrics

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Song by Company B<br /><br>

JOHN HOWARD:<br>

I was an angel in the beginning<br>

I thought of playing but not of winning<br>

So frail and weak, so meek and mild,<br>

I was the world's most agreeable child<br>

I had my share of schoolyard beatings<br>

I made my fair and frightened bleatings<br>

But I began to understand<br>

What they held in their bullying hands...<br>

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I want power! I want power!<br>

I want to smell my own ambition in flower!<br>

I want a sense of domination and control!<br>

I want to bat! I want to bowl!<br>

I want power! I want power!<br>

The kind where servant girls bring tributes by the hour!<br>

And I won't rest until I rule the school!<br>

Then I'll be hip, then I'll be cool.<br>

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BAND:<br>

You'll be empowered, John Winston Howard<br>

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HOWARD:<br>

Not a single soul alive to call me coward!<br>

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BAND:<br>

You'll be the big, big cheese<br>

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HOWARD:<br>

I won't say sorry! I won't say please!<br>

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BAND:<br>

You'll be empowered, John Winston Howard<br>

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HOWARD:<br>

They'll pay for every time I scraped and bowed and cowered<br>

I'll do what must be done<br>

To make John Howard number one!<br>

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BAND:<br>

Number one!<br>

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HOWARD:<br>

At university, I took my hisses<br>

My slings and brickbats, my hits and misses<br>

But ev'ry moment mocked and cursed<br>

Increased my hunger, increased my thirst<br>

And so the party fed my ambition<br>

They let me lead the Opposition<br>

They let me lead then tore me down<br>

But that won't happen this time around...<br>

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I want power! I want power!<br>

Not just to sit in Opposition and glower!<br>

I want to turn this mother loose!<br>

Show me the money! Give me the juice!<br>

I want power! I want power!<br>

I'll give Australia a gorgeous golden show!<br>

And I won't rest until I rule!<br>

Then I'll be cruel, then I'll be cool.<br>

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BAND:<br>

You'll be empowered, John Winston Howard<br>

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HOWARD:<br>

I'll show that Keating joker how his grapes have soured!<br>

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BAND:<br>

You'll be the man in charge<br>

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HOWARD:<br>

I'll go ballistic! I'm livin' large!<br>

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BAND:<br>

You'll be empowered, John Winston Howard<br>

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HOWARD:<br>

With a biography by Pru and David Goward<br>

And when it comes to be,<br>

I'll make the bastards bow to me!<br>

And when it comes to be...<br>

BOW TO ME.<br>

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[Thanks to Jess for lyrics]<br>

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