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Systematic Abuse

Release date: 12th February 2007

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"Systematic Abuse" is a track by The Fall, from the album Reformation Post TLC, released 12th February 2007. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

The Fall

The Fall

Lyrics

Systematic Abuse

So many people

It is the same

The valleys open up

It is the same

Get a potato out

It is the same

When I open the mail

It's the same game

Lyrics on TV

Sound like this to me

When I get a potato out

It is the same

When I open the mail

It is the same

Nothing you can do

Surrounding the (?)

When I get a potato out

It is the same

Get it excited

It is the same

When I walk up the hill

It is the same

Systematic abuse

It is the truth x3

Systematic abuse

It is the whole truth

Paralytis, I'm telling you

Systematic abuse

It is the truth

Systematic abuse

It is the whole truth

When I open the local paper

It is the regular advertiser

It crumbles in my hand

When I cross the roundabout

It was the same

When I cross the roundabout

It is the same

Systematic abuse

It is the truth

Systematic abuse

It is the whole truth

When I open the mail

It crumbles in my hands

When I open a bill

It crumbles through my hands

Systematic abuse

It is the truth

Systematic abuse

It is the whole truth

Ba ba ba bah x4

Systematic abuse

It is the truth

Systematic abuse

It is the whole truth

Do you?

Do you accept?

Systematic abuse

It is the truth

Systematic abuse

It is the whole truth

Systematic abuse

Do you?

Do you exit?

Do you accept?

Do you accept?

You've got your head in water

Systematic abuse

It is the truth

Systematic abuse

It is the whole truth

Ba ba ba bah x4

Systematic abuse

Now you know the truth x2

Systematic abuse

It is the whole truth

Systematic abuse

It is the truth

Systematic abuse

It is the whole truth

Systematic abuse

Now you know our truth

You want the truth

Mister You

Systematic abuse

It is the truth

Systematic abuse

It is the whole truth

So many people

It is the same

The valleys open up

It is the same

When I get a rotten vegetable out

It is the same

When I open the mail

It is the same

Systematic abuse

It is the truth

Systematic abuse

It is the whole truth

Will nobody progress?

They're all always (? thirty)

Keiron's paralytic

I'll tell you some more...

Some others

Systematic abuse

It is the truth

Systematic abuse

It is the whole truth

Ba ba ba bah x4

Systematic abuse

It is the truth

Systematic abuse

It is the whole truth

Systematic abuse

It is the truth

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From Reformation Post TLC

2007
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