Set your dollies down, it’s time for tea
But now the painted soldiers want to play
It’s the battle of the plastic people
And it gets rougher every day

Little arms have got to learn to fight back
Little legs have got to learn to run
The game is just the same, nothing’s changed
But this time it won’t be fun

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  You’ve got a place to go and you won’t be led- you’re a proud girl
  Never had a thought that you left unsaid- proud girl
  The picture of you I keep inside my head- is a proud girl
  Proud girl, proud girl

The lights are coming on and all your friends are out
They’re going into town to sell their skin
They’ve got themselves a deal, they’re counting up
The doors it’s going to let them in

If you shake your money maker it’ll work for you
Lay your merchandise out on the floor
Or else put up the barricades and get your body
Ready for a war

Chorus

So all these changes, how they treating you
Do the decades take you by surprise
And is it fatal that I’m meeting you
When we’re out of disguise?

All the world has ended up the same
There’s not an honest song to sing
Freedom is a failure, money is the measure
Of everything

Chorus