On eBay (video)

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1. Mr. Kokoschka, it just happened again (sad so sad),

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they struck the museum like a hurricane (sad so sad).

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All of our culture, it's dead and it's gone (sad so sad),

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from Babylon, baby, back to Babylon (sad so sad).

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There's stuff you find along the way and stuff you leave behind,

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and it all ends up as stuff that you can buy

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on eBay from Babylon back to Babylon.

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on eBay from Babylon back to Babylon.

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2. In all Baghdad, they're dusting off the antiques (sad, so sad),

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it’s the 14th Guernica, we’ve had this week (sad, so sad).

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I got 25 dollars for a Persian vase (sad, so sad),

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hold the critique, I think I’m going large (sad, so sad).

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That stuff inside your houses and that stuff behind your eyes,

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and it all ends up as stuff that you can buy

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on eBay from Babylon back to Babylon.

G - D Am C

on eBay from Babylon back to Babylon.

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3. They're building a tower out of wrappers and cans (sad, so sad),

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now we're speaking a language that we all understand (sad, so sad).

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T-T-Tongue tied and starry eyed (sad, so sad),

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it’s the ancient history of old school times (sad, so sad).

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There’s stuff, dressed up as truth,

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and then there’s stuff dressed up as lies,

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and it all ends up as stuff that you can buy

G - D Am C

on eBay from Babylon back to Babylon.

G - D Am C

on eBay from Babylon back to Babylon.

G - D Am C

on eBay from Babylon back to Babylon.

G - D Am C

on eBay from Babylon back to Babylon ...

(orig. = capo 3rd) (Chumbawamba)