Can't Happen Here

Album: Difficult to Cure (1981)
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  • Contaminated fish and micro chips
    Huge supertankers on Arabian trips
    Oily propaganda from the leaders' lips
    All about the future
    There's people over here, people over there
    Everybody's looking for a little more air
    Crossing all the borders just to take their share
    Planning for the future

    And we're so abused, and we're so confused
    It's easy to believe that someone's gonna light the fuse
    Can't happen here, can't happen here
    All that you fear they're telling you, can't happen here

    Supersonic planes for a holiday boom
    Rio de Janeiro in an afternoon
    People out of work but there's people on the moon
    Looking for the future
    Concrete racktracks nationwide
    Juggernauts carving up the countryside
    Cars by the million on a one way ride
    Using up the future

    And we're so abused, and we're so confused
    It's easy to believe that someone's gonna light the fuse
    Can't happen here, can't happen here
    All that you fear they're telling you, can't happen here

    Satellites spying for the CIA
    The KGB and the men in grey
    Wonder if I'm gonna see another day
    Somewhere in the future
    We got everything we need for a peaceful time
    Take what you want but you can't take mine
    Everybody's living on the Siegfried line
    Worried 'bout the future
    And we're so abused, and we're so confused
    It's so easy to believe that someone's gonna light it
    Easy to believe someone's gonna light the fuse
    Can't happen here, can't happen here
    All that you fear they're telling you, can't happen here can it? Writer/s: RITCHIE BLACKMORE, ROGER DAVID GLOVER
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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