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XTC
Times Square (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Take This Town

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Take This Town

Release date: 1980

From Times Square (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

About This Track

"Take This Town" is a track by XTC, from the album Times Square (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), released 1980. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

Take This Town

Living in a rabbit tunnel

Keep the doggie in her kennel

Mustn't let her see the world

Oh, no!

Don't treat her like that

Oh, no!

Don't treat her like that

Living under Mum and Daddy

Carry hope just like a caddie

Mustn't let them see you're killed

Shout it clear for all to hear

You won't shoot this bird down

Shout it clear for all to hear

We're going to take this town

Turn a deaf ear to the orders

Keep them as your perfect daughters

Mustn't let them know their minds

Turning on to only music

Breaking from their childhood attic

Mustn't let them open the blinds

It's time she stopped being your ornament

It's time she put that in the past for permanent

You can't hold her if she wants to roam around

You can't hold her dream and keep it gagged and bound

We're going

We're going to

We're going to take

We're going to take this

We're going to take this

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Track details

From Times Square (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

1980

Album

Times Square (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Release year

1980

—Take This Town

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Credits

Credited: Andy Partridge, Steve Lillywhite, Various Artists