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Lois Lane Lyrics

Lois Lane seemed
A pretty strong woman
The kind woman
That a girl could be
So you got an HND
in journalism
Because journalism
Could change the world

And if you change the world
Then you could be happy
Yeah, you could be happy

Choices
You make good choices
To change our world
So you could be happy

The motivation
Of altruism
is selfishness
The desire for
The pleasure of the reward
Ah, the fine young cynic!
You cried

Would you rather not have a go
And change the world
Come on, come on, come on
Yeah, you could be happy
Come on, come on, come on
Yeah, you could be happy

Choices
You make good choices
To change our world
So you could be happy

Oh, he changed you
I mean I did not like him
No, I never liked him
Which made me not like you
Not like I used to do
No, we were never, no, we were never
We were never friends

So you could be happy
So you could be happy

Choices
You make good choices
That change our world
So you could be happy
Choices
You make good choices
To change our world
So you could be happy

At the over 30s Singles Nite
The over 30s Singles Nite
It's bleak, it's bleak, it's bleak
It's bleak, it's bleak, it's bleak
It's bleak, it's bleak, it's bleak
At the over 30s Singles Nite
The over 30s Singles Nite
It's bleak, it's bleak, it's bleak
It's bleak, it's bleak
See you next week
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mellow_harsher On Feb 09, 2018
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Cover art for Lois Lane lyrics by Franz Ferdinand

The new album is pretty good. Lois Lane being one of my favorites.

There is this whole idea that to find happiness, is to make the world a better place. So this girl buys into that thinking (put upon by a figure that the guy has always seen as a quack), and gets a career in journalism.

In the end it's probably exhausting work that she doesn't enjoy. She doesn't have the chops to move up in the system and become a name that people enjoy to read. And so now she's a 30-something who feels ashamed of having wasted her twenties on a goal that she was never going to achieve.

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@chasingyesterday yes, that seems to fit. girlfriend started singing "at the over 30s single night" this morning and I laughed and shivered at the same time at how astute the lyric was.

@chasingyesterday yes, that seems to fit. girlfriend started singing "at the over 30s single night" this morning and I laughed and shivered at the same time at how astute the lyric was.

 
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