ELTON JOHN
Burn Down The Mission

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You tell me there's an angel in your tree Did he say he'd come to call on me
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For things are getting desperate in our home Living in the parish of the restless folks I know

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Everybody now bring your family down to the riverside Look to the east to see where the fat stock hide
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Behind four walls of stone the rich man sleeps It's time we put the flame torch to their keep

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Burn down the mission If we're gonna stay alive
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Watch the black smoke fly to heaven See the red flame light the sky
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Burn down the mission Burn it down to stay alive
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It's our only chance of living Take all you need to live inside
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Deep in the woods the squirrels are out today My wife cried when they came to take me away
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But what more could I do just to keep her warm Than burn burn burn burn down the mission walls

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