Half Man Half Biscuit - Gubba Lookalikes

( intro A D E ( x9 ) )
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they come from underneath the stairs
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into my room but no – one cares
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they’re on the bus and on the train
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they’re knocking on my window pane .
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oh mother telephone the nurse
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can’t you see it’s getting worse
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i close my eyes yet still it seems
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everybody in my dreams ,
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gubba look – A – likes gubba look – A – likes .
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i wake up screaming in the hall
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i didn’t mean to wake at all
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i run and lock the bathroom door
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turn on the taps and out they pour .
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through all the villages and towns
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a thousand sandy coloured clowns
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i try and escape down private drives
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and then i reach the reader’s wives .
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gubba look – A – likes gubba look – A – likes .
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in order to fling off this curse , i spend all day drinking in
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diverse taverns , with smarmy acrobats and balding senators .
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but after a while they too adopt the likeness and begin to breed like
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town pigs .
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as a drunken lump i fall into a state of blissful unconsciousness
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but the moment is fleeting and i awake once more in despair
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and in my final agonies believe myself lost .
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gubba look – A – likes gubba look – A – likes .
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in every film and every play , on every public right of way
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on every flag i see unfurled , on all the grounds in all the world
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the one – armed bandits in the bar , in the back of every car
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and even on my dying day they’ll refuse to go away
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when i walk towards the light something somewhere won’t be right
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and what was once my uncle keith says there’ll never be relief
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and we’ll go on and on and on and on and on .
A D E A D E , A D E ( to fade )
gubba look – A – likes gubba look – A – likes .