Advice to Daughters

[Verse 1] Let no stone go unturned No village go unburned Let nation's price-taggers stick their sallow daggers into everything that we own Let our very children Sold as X-Factor cattle, be stripped in teenage battle as slabs of beef from bone Slabs of beef from bone Let every minute Of every day Let [? 'em know how I go unconcerned?] In [?thrall of bent?] To those bastards we pray So no sovereign peace Goes unearned No child that you not sell No memory you'd not chop or fell No corner that you'd not plow, duly burn and cast down to hell [Pre-Chorus] Advice to daughters, 1, 2, and 3 When you're too old to sit on Dad's knee In the words of your grandpa When we've given up hope We've so little left it, it was ours [Chorus] (Telescope) Don't buy a 50p telescope (Stars) You'll only see 50p stars, my girl (Telescope) Don't buy a 50p telescope (Stars) You'll only see 50p stars [Verse 2] Let's carry around some bottles of water To rattle around with the keys to your car Your jumper stuck right up the crack of your arse Mine still are Let's strike up a loud conversation Of off-piece too long And turn the volume right up when it's some place we've been and they've not gone Let's keep putting 'right now' After everything we say Till a simple 'at the moment' seems a dark and dark and distant day Let's chew gum like a six year old With sunglasses on our head So in winter they know we're half-bred and definitely half-mad [Pre-Chorus] [Chorus] [Verse 3] Let's go shopping in the bitter half-quarter Let's look around the bazaar 5 pounds for a bottle of fizzy water, I'd rather be old than what it is you are See, they do not like the outspoken Only broken, or soon on the mend No time for bridges or valley ridges, no diversion nor no mountain bend Let's wreck the earth and do India On the cheap, in our bare feet Come back home, order takeaway, mock the way that they speak Beware that coffe-to-go carryin' bastard He's trying to kill you, child Take ploughman's lunch, reach it by path and take that route,d one pound a mile Until every path we may tread upon Everything we ever see Is more valuable to their kids and them than valueless to me, or thee [Pre-Chorus] [Chorus] [Bridge] 'We are the world' No you're not You're overpaid chancers on an oversize yacht Message in a bottle to Sting 'Lose the fucking yoga and the Yang or fucking Ying' If you wanna teach the world to sing [Chorus variant] x2 (Shotgun_) Don't buy a 50p shotgun (Stars) You'll only shoot 50p stars, my girl (Shotgun) Don't buy a 50p shotgun (Stars) You'll only shoot 50p stars [Outro] Let's adopt some African babies Now we know the fear of rabies Shove them in a bag at the port then into the back of our Mercedes Everything, everything we tread upon And everything we ever see Is more valuable to their kids and them than valueless to me, or thee