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All the horses out of the gate and right away
 It's bio-terror coming on with smallpox
 Running third is mass murder and behind him
 It's airline crashing and random gunshot
 I know the odds are with the fate I'm under
 But now and then I can't help but wonder
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 It's gonna be quick, it's gonna be fast
 A ball of flame, a quick flash
 An atom bomb and I'm just a cinder
 Or maybe everybody freezes all of a sudden
 When the weather changes into global winter
 'Cause what if Yellowstone Park exploded
 So much that everything was covered over
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 I could slip in the shower or get mad cow disease
 I could stop and smell the flowers
 And stung by a swarm of killer bees
 I read the paper and the headline said
 Only thirteen shopping days 'till Armageddon
 I got duct tape hanging at my neck because
 The terrorist attack could happen any second
 This could be worldwide destruction
 Or alien abduction
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 I tried to move away to somewhere safe
 So I flew to an island but the plane got hijacked
 So I decided I would fortify my home but then
 I open up a letter and it's filled with anthrax
 How on earth can we all avoid
 Colliding with that asteroid
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 I could live to a hundred and die peacefully
 Of natural causes
 Think how boring that would be
 Out of the turn and down to the wire
 It's exploding tire, poison apple and falling boulder
 Out around 'em, out of nowhere and looking strong
 It's the long shot growing older
 I know the odds are with the fate I'm under
 But now and then I can't help but wonder
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 Bird flu