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"Russian Roulette" is a track by John Cale, from the album Honi Soit, released 1981. The track is 5:17 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about John Cale.
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The Russian bear is hungry He's dancing in his chains And the trainer is melancholy Feeling hard and grey, okay And he will have to dig for miles underground of soil If, if not for Frenchmen dizzy From turning their backs on everyone's story And everybody's disgust Everybody's distrust Distrust, disgust Well, behind the sanitary napkin beauty That oozes out of each and every song He harnesses the blood bank soul To package creatures that belong Hey you, John Wayne, he can feel no pain 'Cause he's got no brain He's riding horses to Apocalypse and back Just like a cross eyed, Paul McCartney Like another cross eyed, Paul McCartney For hard-judged creatures that belong above the weathered tan That material safety ain't a safety found in numbers But they're never getting slumber When they're never getting zoned And the getting's all gone I love a big gain Kate and Peter, beauty comes last Safety first and beauty comes last Safety first 'cause spiteful caravan goes last Antique caravan goes last Well, Delilah, is your hair ever bloated? Samson's shorn and hoarse With 50 calibre bullets For the truncheons in the human race Japan, Japan, Japan, we love you They carve you like a California turkey Feed to hungry, missiles sucking The moist vagina of the world Hey you, leave it And Russia is defecting Russia, Russia is defecting Russia is defected, is defective, is defected Is defective, is defecting What's wrong with the motherland? What's wrong with the fatherland? Have they come to join the Ku Klux Klan And elect black Communists surgeons in case you need them Elect Communist surgeons Elect black Communist surgeons Elect black Communist surgeons today, in case you need them In the rain, if it rains When it rains It never rains on the Russian Party Rains If it rains, if it rains If it rains on the Communist Party If it rains, if it rains If it rains on the Communist Party If it rains, if it rains If it rains on the Communist Party
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