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Civil​-​Iced War

from Cube It and Bent by dwarf band

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It's not just the low-life and unlucky who can run afoul of society's mores. The Stalinists perfected an old game, civil-iced war, where even the high and mighty could fall from the zenith to the pits in a matter of political moments. In the West, the game is well developed with tax evasion, sexuality and communist tendencies the most popular vehicles. Civil-iced war is perhaps crueler than the grim harvest of the habitual fool, because it takes from the highest pegs, the highest expectations and often the greatest potential.

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CIVIL-ICED WAR

A decade in the salt mines (of Siberia)
And when you'd laid some pipelines (in Siberia)
Then you regained your place
But you were in disgrace, in Siberia, (in Siberia)

Come and form a lobby (at the Pentagon)
Power games are your new hobby (at the Pentagon)
Your empire costs you less
'Til you cross the IRS, at the Pentagon (at the Pentagon)

Then it's civil-iced war (civil-iced war)
Refrigeration without thaw
Put that man on hold, stay there in the cold
In a room without a door
He can contemplate his flaw
This is civil-iced war (civil-iced war)

A lifetime in the closet (in suburbia)
You have no wish to stop it (in subservia)
But when you show your hand
No-one can understand, in suburbia (in subservia)

You're shooting for the top (in politics)
You're the pick among the crop (in politics)
Your leader makes a gaffe
But you must take the rap, in politics (in politics)

Then it's civil-iced war (civil-iced war)
Refrigeration without thaw
Put that man on hold, stay there in the cold
In a room without a door
He can contemplate his flaw
This is civil-iced war (civil-iced war)

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from Cube It and Bent, released December 31, 1990

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