Marathon - Painting By Numbers lyrics

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Let's start a war<br />

Let's start a war<br />

What the hell do you think all these new bombs are for?<br />

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I'm feeling generous today<br />

And I'm itching to make a charity donation<br />

There are some orphan bombs who only want to do their jobs<br />

And need a place to detonate<br />

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Let's start a war<br />

And give a home to these explosions<br />

Let's start a war<br />

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I could say that I'm not smashing piggy banks for all this killing<br />

But I'll just turn away and bathe in the stream <br />

of shopping bags and half-price tags and giveaways<br />

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We hold the purse, we hold the reins<br />

We can deny these spoiled kids their next allowance<br />

When they start shoving 'round like bullies on the playground<br />

We shake our pockets for more change <br />

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Let's start a war<br />

'Cause I'm a sucker for a good fight<br />

Let's start a war<br />

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Will we say that we're not buying any toys for naughty children<br />

No we'll just turn away and pass the buck off <br />

to the governments who kill off all the dissidents <br />

And let our culpability dissolve out in the acid rain<br />

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So everyone grab your nuclear brush<br />

And your palette of industrial sludge<br />

And paint a sunrise so dark it will never return<br />

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Please stop acting like this comes from somebody else<br />

'Cause we've commissioned this painting ourselves<br />

So just sit back and relax and scatter limbs like Picasso, spatter blood like Pollack<br />

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Art critics are standing by<br />

To declare this a wonderful sight<br />

Lock and load all your checkbooks we'll fill this gallery<br />

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It's such a classic tapestry <br />

Full of weapons and violence and need<br />

We will hang it in the finest museums of history