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Pink Flag
Reuters

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Reuters

Release date: 1st December 1977

About This Track

"Reuters" is a track by Wire, from the album Pink Flag, released 1st December 1977. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Wire

Wire

Lyrics

Reuters

Our own correspondent is sorry to tell

Of an uneasy time, that all is not well

On the borders there's movement

In the hills, there is trouble

Food is short, crime is double

Prices have risen since the government fell

Casualties increase as the enemy shell

The climate's unhealthy, flies and rats thrive

And sooner or later the end will arrive

This is your correspondent, running out of tape

Gunfire's increasing, looting, burning, rape!

(Rape, rape, rape)

Rape!

(Rape, rape, rape)

(Rape, rape, rape)

(Rape, rape, rape)

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Track details

From Pink Flag

1977

Album

Release year

1977

—Field Day for the Sundays
—Surgeon's Girl
—106 Beats That
—1 2 X U
—Brazil
—Champs
—Feeling Called Love
—Fragile
—Ex Lion Tamer
—Different to Me
—It's So Obvious
—Lowdown
—Pink Flag
—Reuters
—Mr. Suit
—Start to Move
—The Commercial
—Three Girl Rhumba
—Straight Line
—Strange

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