Shot By Both Sides

Album: Real Life (1978)
Charted: 41
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  • This and that, they must be the same
    What is legal is just what's real
    What I'm given to understand
    Is exactly what I steal
    I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd
    I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd
    I was shocked to find what was allowed
    I didn't lose myself in the crowd

    Shot by both sides
    On the run to the outside of everything
    Shot by both sides
    They must have come to a secret understanding

    New offenses always in my nerves
    They're taking my time by force
    They all sound the same when they scream
    As a matter of course

    I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd
    I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd
    I was shocked to find what was allowed
    I didn't lose myself in the crowd

    Shot by both sides
    On the run to the outside of everything
    Shot by both sides
    They must have come to a secret understanding

    Why are you so edgy Kid?
    Asks the man with the voice
    One thing follows another
    You live and learn, you have no choice

    I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd
    I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd
    I was shocked to find what was allowed
    I didn't lose myself in the crowd

    I didn't lose myself to the crowd
    I didn't lose myself to the crowd
    I was shocked to find what was allowed
    I didn't lose myself in the crowd
    But I wormed my way
    But I wormed my way
    But I wormed my way
    But I wormed my way
    But I wormed my way
    But I wormed my way
    But I wormed my way
    But I wormed my way

    Shot by both sides
    I don't ask who's doing the shooting
    Shot by both sides
    We must have come to a secret understanding Writer/s: HOWARD DEVOTO
    Publisher: Mute Song Limited, Universal Music Publishing Group
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