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Workhouse? Yeah, what do you want?
Information, who the fuck do you think you are?
You never fucking stop, always wanting something for nothing
Okay, I'll give you want you want, I'll give you information

All these songs about Christ, spooks and personal vendettas
Organ donations, there's a mini operetta
Are people gonna say you've gone off your rocker?
Well, I'm the brightest thing on the roster

And I sleep well when I turn out the light
I'm like an off-duty comedian at the end of a bad night
Easy to like admire, difficult to love, you've gotta believe me
When I say I never wanted to be liked and I defy the curfew
A sense of humor is the most overrated virtue

Get off your knees you groveling bastards
This is Oliver twist pissing over Britannia
200 years of Tin Pan Alley
I learned good from a king thief mentor

Newgate, Broadstreet, Langdales Distillery
Papist threats and no papery
It's a beautiful night again
So paint the wall white again
Brutality for the kids, Oliver Twist

There was this gang who I used to run with
Ragamuffins, urchin scum, spivs
Looking good comes in handy
When you're dipping in the pockets of a dandy

And there's treason in the air, it's just a leap of faith
There's murder in the air at Rillington Place
A Christie lives in Soho
This is the Oliver Twist Manifesto
Totality for the kids, Oliver Twist

I'm operating now under four different names
I can use anyone of them, anytime again
And I've never been one to hold a grudge
Twists has turned vicious

What if all the malevolent cripples
The Raspberry ripples are just putting it on?
And they're the brightest of all of the people
Oliver Twist, vaudeville spook mentalist

Disappear into a pea souper
Swooping down on your back
Coming out of a cold snap
Into a pea souper, a cartarista

It was meant to be great but it's gone wrong again
It's a beautiful night, so paint the wall white again
Get of your knees 'cause Christie lives
It's a beautiful night for Treason, Oliver Twist, Oliver Twist