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I am the one in ten
A number on a list
I am the one in ten
Even though i don`t exist
Nobody knows me
Even though i`m always there
A statistic, a reminder
Of a world that doesn`t care


My arms enfold the dole queue
Malnutrition dulls my hair
My eyes are black and lifeless
With an underprivileged stare
I`m the beggar on the corner
Will no-one spare a dime?
I`m the child that never learns to read
`cause no-one spared the time


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I am the one in ten .... etc


I`m the murderer and the victim
The licence with the gun
I`m a sad and bruised old lady
In an ally in a slum
I`m a middle aged businessman
With chronic heart disease
I`m another teenaged suicide
In a street that has no trees


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I am the one in ten .... etc


I`m a starving third world mother
A refugee without a home
I`m a house wife hooked on valium
I`m a pensioner alone
I`m a cancer ridden spectre
Covering the earth
I`m another hungry baby
I`m an accident of birth.


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I am the one in ten .... etc

You might believe, and still you feel
The chase has just begun;
That you must reach that horizon before
The setting of the sun.
You chase the light in front of you,
Nightfall close behind;
If you stop to catch your breath,
You know what you will find.

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Don`t slow down don`t touch the ground,
You know what you will find;
That old grey man in tattered clothes
Following behind.


No time to stop, don`t go to sleep,
Prepare to pay the cost.
The hours and minutes are passing by,
Another day is lost.
Impatience is a virtue,
Catch me if you can.
The seconds have been ticking by
Since your life began.

A human statue made of living stone
A paradox etched in human bone
If you could look behind his thin disguise
There`s a hidden glint of madness in his eyes.

Many men are fooled by his smile
His superficial grace his charm his style
Sardonicus is everybody`s friend
Sardonicus keeps smiling to the end.

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Hey folitician, me seh hey folitician
Me seh hey folitician
Mek you go long so.
Hey folitician, me seh hey folitician
Me seh hey folitician
Mek you go long so.

You come chatty chatty chatty run up you` mouth; (repeat)
One man, one vote you hear from the shout. (repeat)

You full of pure promise but you tell damn` lies; (repeat)
You make a mistake and then somebody dies. (repeat)

Hey folitician, me seh hey folitician
Me seh hey folitician
What you doin `bout the slums?
You sit around all day, jus` a twiddle your thumbs;
You have a strange expression
Mek you look like you` dumb. (repeat)

You worry everybody `til you put them in a box. (repeat)


Dub freak gone
Gone go check him record shop,
Gone go check him record stock.

Him climb upon the box
Him said him got to reach the top;
Him climb upon the shelf
Him seh you take care yourself.
Him dance upon the floor
Him said a music galore. (repeat)

Dub freak, dub freak
Deh `pon the go;
Say you never know
Because i told you so.

Sippa, sippa, sippa, sippa, lightning crash; (repeat)
Drummer `pon him drum, him jus` a play mish-mash. (repeat)
Keyboards in the middle jus`a jump and twiddle. (repeat)
Rhythm over here an` me seh rhythm over there;
Don`t stop and stare because the rhythm gone clear.

Dub freak, dub freak, in a dub freak style
Dub freak, dub freak, still a running wild.
Him start from the bottom `til him reach up the top
Him keep on rocking and him never stop.
Wow and flutter, music jus`
A run like butter. (repeat)

Dub a slip an` slide
Dub a slip an` slide
Dub a slip an` slide,
He can`t find nowhere to hide.

Ivory madonna dying in the dust,
Waiting for the manna coming from the west.
Barren is her bosom, empty as her eyes,
Death a certain harvest scattered from the skies.

Skin and bones is creeping, does`nt know he`s dead.
Ancient eyes are peeping, from his infant head.
Politician`s argue sharpening their knives.
Drawing up their bargains, trading baby lives.

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Ivory madonna dying in the dust,
Waiting for the manna coming from the west.


Hear the bells are ringing, christmas on it`s way.
Hear the angels singing, what is that they say?
Eat and drink rejoicing, joy is here to stay.
Jesus son of mary is born again today.


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Ivory madonna dying in the dust,
Waiting for the manna coming from the west.
Ivory madonna dying in the dust,
Waiting for the manna coming from the west.