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What Do People Want Song Lyrics
These are the lyrics to the song What Do People Want by Beccy Owen and Dan Bye.
Intro
What do people want? What do people want?
Verse 1
Build a superstore
Build a park
Drain it, flood it and
Build an ark
Social housing, luxury flats
Grassroots democracy, bureaucrats
Chorus
That’s what people want, that’s what people want
That’s what people want, that’s what people wa-a-nt
Verse 2
Orchestral concerts in the church
Clearer signposts and a silver birch
Tourist economy
Local pound
Something so frivolous
And so profound
Chorus
That’s what people want, that’s what people want
That’s what people want, that’s what people wa-a-nt
Verse 3
Cleaner air
and faster traffic
Painterly
and photographic
Trees and concrete and open ground
A bigger ring road to crawl around
Family-friendly destination
Office space
and recreation
Individual, corporation,
Place for political demonstration
Bridge
Preservation, innovation, reclamation, strangulation
Total destruction and transformation!
Chorus
That’s what people want, that’s what people want
That’s what people want, that’s what people wa-a-nt
Outro
I miss Woolies
Do you miss Woolies
I don’t miss Woolies
Do you miss Woolworths?
I miss Woolies
Do you miss Woolies
I don’t miss Woolies
But I want some pick ‘n’ mix!
End
