I’ll be gone; you’ll be gone

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There’s a voice that keeps on calling me
Down the road is where I’ll always be
Every stop I make, I’ll make a new friend
Can’t stay for long, just turn around and I’m gone again.
The JC puts on his pith-helmet, grabs his butterfly net and a rucksack full of marmalade sandwiches, and heads into the concrete jungleIndex: Click to expand:
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I’ll be gone; you’ll be gone”. (Also “IBGYBG)

A rationale which emerges from the deepest, most primitive part of the brain and which can come in handy, when all else fails and a perfectly tenable negotiation appears be be foundering on a point of excellent principle, ably argued by buyside legal eagle, but everyone knows has only distant, imperceptible practical risk of ever coming about.

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