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PERFORMING ARTISTS
The Boomtown Rats
The Boomtown Rats
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Bob Geldof
Bob Geldof
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Producer

Lyrics

The world owes me a living
I've waited on this dole queue too long
I've been standing in the rain for fifteen minutes
That's a quarter of an hour too long
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
I'll take all they can give me
And then I'm gonna ask for more
'Cause the money's buried deep in the bank of England
And I want the key to the vault
I'm gonna take your money
Count your loss when I'm gone
I'm alright, Jack
Lookin' after no. 1
If I want something, I get it
Don't matter what I have to do
I'll step on your face, on my mother's grave
Never underestimate me, I'm nobody's fool
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
I don't owe nobody nothing
'Cause it's me that must come through
Why don't you stop, think, look, babe?
I always get what I want and I wanna get you
I'm gonna take your money
Count your loss when I'm gone
I'm alright, Jack
Lookin' after no. 1
I don't wanna be like you
I don't wanna live like you
I don't wanna talk like you
Uh, uh, at all
No. 1
Don't give me love thy neighbour
Don't give me charity
Don't give me peace and love or the good lord above
You only get in my way with your stupid ideas
Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
I am an island
Entire of myself
And when I get old, older than today
I'll never need anybody's help in any way
I'm gonna take your money
Count your loss when I'm gone
I'm alright, Jack
Lookin' after no. 1
I don't wanna be like you
I don't wanna live like you
I don't wanna talk like you
Uh, uh
I'm gonna be like, I'm gonna be like
I'm gonna be like me
Written by: Bob Geldof
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