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Da-ba-di di-da Sometimes it occurs to us, the great entertainers As we beam toward the parlors of the halt and the lame That we're really nothing more than the keepers of the war These are political prisoners in all but name A third of us are suffering from boredom and bulimia The sheperds fall asleep while entertaining their sheep Two-thirds die of anorexia nervosa Behind Robert Redford and Meryl Streep Wе may bore you with girls We may bore you with nеws There's a choice of viewing now On channel one and channel two We may bore you with a car chase Or the birth of the blues But we say No spitting on the board But we say No spitting on the board Because they give their lives so we can afford The Modigliani and the red Ferrari And the Filipino We trust with a key To dust the TV That we never see Da-ba-di di-da We interrupt this program for an urgent announcement Reports are coming in of a decisive attack Mounted by the enemies of great entertainment: Creation, conversation and a paperback Down at Shepherd's Bush we've got the world as it ought to be Ten actors, seven colours and two repeats A family drama stands your family EastEnders clears the streets We may bore you to tears We may bore you to death Boy, you're blue in the face And short of breath We may bore the spirit And we may bore the flesh But we say No spitting on the board But we say No spitting on the board Because they give their lives so we can afford The Modigliani and the red Ferrari And the Filipino We trust with a key To dust the TV That we never see Da-ba-di di-da Breathe in smiles, we're such affable anarchists With uptown laughter and watered-down jazz But behind our professionally offhand manner There's desperate envy and the razzamatazz A brother and a sister Once smashed a mirror And the splinters of gla** pierced the brother's eyes That same day we erected transmitters And instead of sympathising we just televised We may bore you stupid We may bore you stiff Boy, you're blind as a bat Behind your dyed blonde quiff You're staring out the horse's mouth Bang in the gift But we say No spitting on the board But we say No spitting on the board Because we give their lives so they can afford Dad's Army, This is the Life Iclaudius, Run for your Wife Come on down, Winner Takes All Dallas and Dynasty, Celebrity Golf Star Trek and Brookside and Top of the Pops And all those other dumb but friendly and likable cops Corrie akimbo, one day you'll see A nation of servants Set themselves free
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