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Artist/Band: Graham Parker
Lyrics for Song: Mercury Poisoning
Lyrics for Album: Live Alone! Discovering Japan [2005]



Pre>

Intro c c c g bb f c g bb f



C g bb f c g bb f

No more pretending now, the albatross is dying in it's nest c g

The company is crippling me, bb f am am

The worst trying to ruin the best, the best

Bb c

Their promotion's so lame

Bb c

They could never ever take it to the real ball game

F g

Maybe they think I'm a pet

F

Well I've got all the diseases g g g

I'm breaking out in sweat, you bet, because



Chorus

C g bb f

I got, mercury poisoning

C g bb f

It's fatal and it don't get better

C g bb f

I got, mercury poisoning bb c g bb f c g bb f

The best kept secret in the we--est, hey the we--est



The boys and me are getting real well known around town

But every time we try to spread the action

Someone always brings it down, down

I ate the orange and I don't feel well

For them it's inconvenience for me it's hell

The geriatric staff think we're freaks

They couldn't sell kebabs to the greeks, the geeks

Inaction speaks, and



Chorus



Bridge

Am g am g

Is this a russian conspiracy, no it's just idiocy

F g

Is this a chinese burn

Am g am g

I gotta dinosaur for a representative

F g

It's got a small brain and refuses to learn



Bb f g

Their promotion's so lame

Bb f g

They could never ever take it to the real ball game

F g

Listen I ain't a pet

F g

I ain't a token hipster, in your monopoly set g

You bet because



Chorus, plus

Yeah the best kept secret in the west the best kept secret in the west

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Album Lyrics: Live Alone! Discovering Japan [2005]


Graham Parker
"Live Alone! Discovering Japan [2005]"


1. Lunatic Fringe
2. Mercury Poisoning
3. Too Many Knots To Untangle