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S*M*A*S*H is celebrating their 20th Anniversary of "(I Want to) Kill Somebody" (which, of course, I do own the original 12" and CD single).
The punk Welwyn Garden City trioâ€¦

Just a quick note on that S*M*A*S*H / NxtGen Split Single Launch, taking place 29 March 2014 at The Portland Arms in Cambridge.

As I suspected, the lyrics have been changed to modernize the song. There's a whole new list of people who should have never existed in the 2014 version of "(I Want to) Kill Somebody". Even though the song is now twenty years old, and because Ed Borrie is such a talented song writer, I believe the song is still good, fresh, and relevant today.

The new changes are minor, with just the names: Margaret Thatcher, Jeffrey Archer, Michael Heseltine, John Major, Virginia Bottomeley, and Gill Shephard (especially!), are now replaced with David Cameron, George Osborne (the other one), Boris Johnson, Teresa May, Denis MacShane, Ed Miliband, and Jeremy Hunt.

You can stream the song on Soundcloud and
YouTube. New lyrics below:

(I Want to) Kill Somebody '14

Statistician studies Titian
The hand up his arse is the politician's
Red-headed women
And a Disraeli disposition
What lack of vision
I want to kill somebody

Hold my hate like a knife to their throats
Cut through every muscle
And break every bone
I want to chop their f****g heads off
and stick them on a stake
That's the extent of my hate
It's not that I want them dead
It's just the world would be a better place

if they'd never existed
I want to kill somebody

A statistician studies Titian
Red-headed women
And a Disraeli disposition
What lack of vision
Whoever's in power,

I'll be the opposition
I want to kill somebody

So I'm a hypocrite
Because I don't believe in capital punishment
But here's my paradoxical quip
'The people who prescribe it are

the people who should subscribe to it'
It's not that I want them dead
It's just the world would be a better place

if they'd never existed
I want to kill somebody

David Cameron and the other one
Boris Johnson, Teresa May
Denis MacShane expenses claim
Miliband Miliband
Jeremy Hunt rhyming slang

I want to kill somebody
Right now!

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