The Fletcher Memorial Home (Pink Floyd)
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1. Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
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And build them a home
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A little place of their own
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The Fletcher memorial home for incurable tyrants
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And kings
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2. And they can appear to themselves every day
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On closed circuit TV
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To make sure they're still real
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It's the only connection they feel
3. Ladies and gentlemen, please, welcome
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Reagan and Haig, mr Begin and friend, mrs Thatcher and Paisley,
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mr Brezhnev and party, the ghost of McCarthy,
the memories of Nixon
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*: And now adding colour...
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4. A group of anonymous latin-american meat packing glitterati
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Did they expect us to treat them with any respect
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They can polish their medals and sharpen their smiles
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And amuse themselves playing games for a while
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Boom, boom! Bang, bang! Lie down you're dead
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5. Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
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With their favourite toys
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They'll be good girls and boys
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In the Fletcher memorial home for colonial wasters of life
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And limb
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*: Is everyone in
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Are you having a nice time, goodbye
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Now the final solution can be applied