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Spent

Release date: 1st October 2002

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"Spent" is a track by Wire, from the album Send, released 1st October 2002. Full lyrics are available below.

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Spent

Experts in paradise—religious extremism

Toxic stimulation—enforced radiation

Fail safe, cut price—quick save, quick fix

Bostik, headfix—speedy guzzle, licks lips

Signal, ratio—whores and Byrons everywhere

Reject, fundraiser—well spent parasite

Cool jerk, widow-work—punk chaser and a tango

Rich lice, avarice, brutalised and mummified

Lifeless, limelight. Ape man, keep your hair on

Ten years later, kill your poor and break them up

Rancid battery acid: fuel for dirty minds

Two-piece generator, neither art or science

Empty distillery, who's the hero tonight?

Sceptic industry, f——ed it just for spite

Spent

Flaccid cat, hairy assets, cool fur, 30, blind

Deep space simulator, needs a sex appliance

Tempted by symmetry, threw a certain dice

Septic hugging tree, sucked its crust for spit

Spent

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