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Matthew Bellamy of the rock group MUSE was contacted by the New Jersey bureau of tourism and asked to write a song to get people to visit New Jersey. He did that, but they didn't like it, and so they didn't pay him for it.

Matthew Bellamy rewrote the words, and it became a smashing hit. That was a bad thing for the songwriter to do. He should not have done that.


Jersey

Help me
I've fallen on the inside
I tried to change the game
I most-ly... ir-ri-tate
But now I'm losing - late night jokes
Always seem to run the show
Save me from the guns and ammos
Before they eat my soul

Jersey, Jersey
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NextTo New-York-ci-ty
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Can someone visit me?

Absent gods and Chris-tie tyranny
We're going under hypnotised
High way-left-turns... dis-app-ear
And tell me why the late night jokes
Always have to bring me down
Running from the guns and ammos
The world just disavows

Jersey, Jersey
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NextTo New-York-ci-ty
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Can someone visit me?
See New Jersey
See New Jersey please...

Help me
I've fallen on the inside
...And all the late night jokes
Made about the... highway tolls

See New Jersey
NextTo New-York-ci-ty
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...Most-ly gutless and mean
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Drive your auto machines
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Can someone visit me?