Gotta Do What You Don't Wanna

from La Palma by The Arabs

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lyrics

This is a song about moving along
Bite the bullet
This is a tune about cleaning your room
Take the lever down and pull it

Sometimes the rain comes
Sometimes the pain's numb
You better grin and bear it

We'll get you sorted
Once you've distorted
Make up the heir apparent

Gonna build a brand new nation, solely based on obligation
Where you do what you're supposed to do
Holding out for warm relations, here's the secret of creations
Listen baby, I am telling you

Gotta do what you don't wanna do
If you're gonna be the one to see it through
Had to do what you don't wanna
Didn't want it pressed upon ya

Gotta do what you don't wanna do
Gotta do what you don't wanna
Trying to impress upon ya
Gotta do what you don't wanna

Couldn't explain the name of your game it's always the same
All you ever want to do is play it
Down on your luck, with only a buck, you better suck it up
Cause the dragon's over there and you gotta slay it

Sometimes the rain comes
Might make the pain numb
You better grin and bear it
We'll get you sorted
Now you've distorted
Make up the heir apparent

We built a brand new nation, founded it on obligation
Where you do what you're supposed to do
Your patience is required, all the guns we got are hired
Responsibility's the clue

Gotta do what you don't wanna do
If you're gonna be the one to see it through
Had to do what you didn't wanna
Didn't want it pressed upon ya

In the pages of time, we drank some wine, felt so divine
All the places you've been, wearing you thin, let it sink in

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from La Palma, released December 4, 2015

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