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Let's Panic Later

Release date: 1st September 1979

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"Let's Panic Later" is a track by Wire, from the album 154 (Reissue), released 1st September 1979. Full lyrics are available below.

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Let's Panic Later

Lights focused for another country

Diplomatically immune, diplomatically immune

My passport's stamped, my visa's in order

Diplomatically immune, diplomatically immune

A grey sky in March helps me to remember

Ein bier, ein cafe, ein bier, ein cafe

The freezing fog in mid-November

Downhill all the way, downhill all the way

How I wish the roads were straighter

Let's panic later, let's panic later

Let's panic later, let's panic later

My reservations and impatience grow

All of the time, all of the time

Honesty and humour thrive in the harsh city

Stripped and alert, stripped and alert

Stripped and alert, stripped and alert

Highly emotional, but this time composed

What is in store? What is in store?

What is in store? What is in store?

What is in store? What is in store?

This time composed

Let's panic later, let's panic later

Let's panic later, let's panic later

Let's panic later, let's panic later

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1979
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