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We've been around for a long time and in that time we've written a lot of songs, some in our previous incarnation as Bikini Black Special, and then even more as Zvilnik - so if you fancy a browse through lyrics old and new, fill your boots. Dig into the back catalogue of satirical sinister speculative cabaret, a fusion of science fiction, political satire, grotesque comedy, and theatrical storytelling that's been built up over actual decades.

Square Peg

This is what you get when you put a dog's brain in a man's head,
and a man's brain in a dog's head
A dog shaped man with a squeaky toy, and a man who knows how to be a good boy
If you can sit, lie down, play dead, roll over, shake a paw
Stay in line, take your medicine and you will reap the rewards

A lifetime of leisure
Forever and ever
With good behaviour
And years of hard labour
You're going to see
That work sets you free
Eventually when we get to die
So I will not try

This is what you get when you put a round peg in a square hole
and fill a round hole with a square peg
A bit of a misfit doesn't sit straight like he's a man with a spare leg
But if you can heel and fetch and stay and do as you are told
Then you can join the queue to do what you want to when you're old
A lifetime of leisure
Forever and ever
With good behaviour
And years of hard labour
You're going to see
That work sets you free
Eventually when we get to die
So I will not try

One day this will all be over
One day this will all be done
But now more than ever we must work together
But now more than ever we must work together
But now more than ever we must work together
But now more than ever we must work together

A lifetime of leisure
Forever and ever
With good behaviour
And years of hard labour
You're going to see
That work sets you free
Eventually when we get to die
So I will not try
Oh I will not try
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