Ticket 2 Ride

Snuggly, settling in for a nap

Never mind the television lights

Or the Western political crap

Capitalist money stole workers rights

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Tonight on the world’s biggest stage

Soviet gymnasts will take the floor

Some of them very young age

World get ready for what we have in store

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We are appointed by the State

Promised big apartment

Party leaders determine our fate

Look other way as athletes take supplement

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International competition a big reward

Loyalty to our Comrade brothers

Defeat to the repressive bourgeois hoarde

East German judges, really bad mothers