Ugly duckling

In the end you got a handsome coat

You bought it with the royalties

Off some anthems he once wrote

But now you crave total control

You'll blow the planet up if you don't get the vote

I feel the earth's crust buckling

Under the weight of your ransome note


HOSTEGES! You're all hostages on earth

You've been betrayed and you won't be tried

It doesn't matter now who's wrong or who lied

You're all hostages! You're all hostages from birth!

You've got a tickin' bomb inside

And you pretend you're just along for the ride


His tunes sold billions

They went uranium long ago

You heard'em at school you heard'em at home

They're the only songs you'll ever know

So now he craves total control

So he's been fixin' up a super gala show

Sold out generations in advance

He sold you out and you gotta go


HOSTAGES! You're all hostages on earth

You've been betrayed and you won't be tried

It doesn't matter now who's wrong or who lied

You're all hostages! You're all hostages from birth!

You've got a tickin' bomb inside

And you pretend you're just along for the ride


Now the ugly duckling

He got his beak in every ballot box

In republics and kingdoms

Protectorates, states and blocs

But now he craves total control

He's gonna fleece the preachers and them flocks

He's gonna rip off all the hicks in the sticks

All the Joneses, junkies and jocks


HOSTAGES! You're all hostages on earth

You've been betrayed and you won't be tried

It doesn't matter now who's wrong or who lied

You're all hostages! You're all hostages from birth!

You've got a tickin' bomb inside

And you pretend you're just along for the ride



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