The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)

Album: Fun Boy Three (1981)
Charted: 20
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  • see a clinic full of cynics
    Who want to twist the peoples' wrist
    They're watching every move we make
    We're all included on the list

    The lunatics have taken over the asylum
    The lunatics have taken over the asylum

    No nuclear the cowboy told us
    And who am i to disagree
    'Cos when the madman flips the switch
    The nuclear will go for me

    The lunatics have taken over the asylum
    The lunatics have taken over the asylum

    I've seen the faces of starvation
    But i just can not see the points
    'Cos there's so much food here today
    That no one wants to take away

    The lunatics have taken over the asylum
    The lunatics have taken over the asylum
    The lunatics have taken over the asylum - take away my right to choose
    The lunatics have taken over the asylum - take away my point of view
    The lunatics have taken over the asylum
    The lunatics have taken over the asylum - take away my dignity,
    Take these things away from me
    The lunatics have taken over the asylum
    The lunatics have taken over the asylum - take away my family,
    Take away the right to speak
    The lunatics have taken over the asylum take away my point of view,
    Take away my right to choose Writer/s: Lynval Golding, Neville Staples, Terry Hall
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Word Collections Publishing
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