[Music: Embury; lyrics: Greenway]
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Take the strain! Can you take it?
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Take the strain! Or even fake it?
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Take the strain! Aren't we lucky
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Take the strain! to be breathing?
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Take the strain!
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Are you the man in the next bed
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Without the tubes, without the life support?
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Maybe the man whose pockets weigh you down/
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Take the strain! Do you wear strife
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Take the strain! like a clown?
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Take the strain! Forgiveness
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Take the strain! with a frown!
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Take the strain!
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Are you the animal
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That escapes the snares and traps?
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Bearing no quarry scars, and the hunter's crown.
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We were taught to follow leaders - follow leaders!
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NEver to challenge the singular pack.
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The goals they set slip the grasp - slip our grasp!
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Chaising tails without the basic facts.
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Choose full pain, violate, make the grade.
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Taut wires fray, electro-brain, take the strain!
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We were taught to follow leaders - follow leaders!
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Never to challenge the singular pack.
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The goals they set slip the grasp - slip our grasp!
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Chaising tails without the basic facts.
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