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3.14sWhen I was four there was a hurricane in Kingston Town
1.87sWith a foot and a half of water
2.7sEveryone was all right, but I cried all night
2.12sit blew my alphabet blocks out of order
2.75sAnd they said this boy's born to be a bureaucrat
2.77sBorn to be all obsessive and snotty
1.94sI made my friends and relations
1.37sFile long applications
2.15sTo get into my tenth birthday party
2.87sBut something changed when my man turned pro
2.1sI was sorting but I wasn't smiling
2.8sHe forgot that it's not about badges and ranks
1.89sit's supposed to be about the filing
1.08sPeople
1.92sWe didn't choose to be bureaucrats
2.17sNo, that's what Almighty jah made us
3.03sWe'd treat people like swine and make 'em stand in line
1.57sEven if nobody paid us
3.04sThey say the world looks down on the bureaucrats
10.23sThey say we're anal, compulsive and weird But when push comes to shove, you've got to do what you love Even if it's not a good idea. Zoidberg!
1.72sThey said I probably shouldn't be a surgeon
2.22sThey pooh-poohed my electric frankfurter
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