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In a time of plague |
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We were young and gay |
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And while money reigned |
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Minorities were wiped out every day |
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But we had tailors |
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We were getting famous |
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With the patronage of William Burroughs |
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And also Kathy Acker |
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Our pens would save the day |
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Singing ‘tirra lirra tirra lirra tirra lirra gabba gabba hey’ |
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And our heroes were (and our heroes were) |
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Nightclub entrepreneurs (nightclub entrepreneurs) |
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Our novellas were |
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Metaphors and deconstructions |
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Architects |
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Who blow up their own buildings |
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While Reagan and Thatcher reigned we got famous |
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Not all of us survived |
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As happens in time of plague |
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Singing ‘tirra lirra tirra lirra tirra lirra gabba gabba hey’ |
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In a gilded time (in a gilded time) |
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When death was king (death was king) |
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A group of authors |
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Began to write a new Decameron |
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Whose elegance |
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Bordered on the Florentine |
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And when the 90s came |
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We were immune to plague |
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To every known strain |
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Then along came Kurt Cobain |
