Safe European Home

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
Well,
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I just got back and I wish I never leave now
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     Who that Martian arrival at the airport,
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yeah?
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  How many local dollars for a local anesthetic?
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  The Johnny on the corner wasn't very sympathetic

[Chorus]
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  I went to the place where every white face
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Is an invitation to robbery
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And sitting here in my safe European home
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Don't wanna go back there again

[Verse 2]
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Wasn't I lucky, wouldn't it be lo_vely?
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Send us all cards and have a lay in on Sunday
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I was there for two weeks,
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so how come I never tell now?
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     That natty dread drinks at the Sheraton Hotel,
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yeah?

[Chorus]
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  I went to the place where every white face
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Is an invitation to robbery
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And sitting here in my safe European home
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Don't wanna go back there again

[Bridge]
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[Verse 3]
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They  got the sun and they got the palm trees
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They  got the weed and they got the ta_xis
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     Whoa,
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"The Harder They Come" and the home of ol' Bluebeat
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  I'd stay  and be a tourist but I can't take the gun play

[Chorus]
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I went to the place where every white face
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Is an invitation to robbery
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And sitting here in my safe European home
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Don't wanna go back there again

[Interlude]
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What?

[Outro]
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Rudie come from Jamaica,
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Rudie can't fail
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Rudie come from Jamaica,
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Rudie can't fail
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Rudie come from Jamaica,
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'cause Rudie can't fail
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Rudie come from Jamaica,
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Rudie can't fail
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Rudie, Rudie, Rudie, Rudie, Rudie,
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Rudie can't fail
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Rudie, Rudie, Rudie, Rudie, Rudie,
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Rudie can't fail
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Rudie loots and Rudie shoots and Rudie gun man don't back
down
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Rudie, Rudie, Rudie, Rudie, Rudie,
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guns are coming
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Rudie, Rudie, Rudie, Rudie, Rudie,
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Rudie can't fail
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Rudie, Rudie, Rudie, Rudie,
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Rudie he can't fail

[Fade Out]
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Rudie come up from Jamaica,
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'cause Rudie can't fail
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Rudie come from   Jamaica,
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'cause Rudie can't fail
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Rudie, Rudie, Rudie, Rudie,
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Rudie Rudie loots and Rudie shoots
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Elder come and Rudie go but no one knows where police must
go

[Fade In]
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