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King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (Including "Mirrors")
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Blood rack, barbed wire
Politicians' funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
[Refrain]
Twenty-first century schizoid man
[Instrumental Break: "Mirrors"]
[Verse 3]
Death seed, blind man's greed
Poets' starving children bleed
Nothing he's got he really needs
Twenty-first century schizoid man
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (Album Visualiser)
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(Could have been written for you know who.)