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Government Faces (Live Version)

[suno::GLOBAL_RULE=INSTRUCTION_TEXT_IS_NOT_LYRICS] [suno::GLOBAL_RULE=ONLY_TEXT_INSIDE_LYRICS_BLOCK_IS_VOCALIZED] [suno::GLOBAL_RULE=DO_NOT_SING_PARAMETER_LINES] [suno::GLOBAL_RULE=NEVER_VOCALIZE_SUNO_INSTRUCTIONS] [suno::Create a fast dry quirky live post-punk / art-funk performance (4:00–4:20), recorded in Berlin.] [suno::Continuous genuine concert ambience with cheering, whistles, laughter, clapping and spontaneous audience chanting.] [suno::The live performance feels approximately 10 BPM faster than the studio version. Mechanical, playful and increasingly danceable.] [suno::David Beans: thin nasal nervous British male voice. Extremely dry, detached and half-spoken. Deliver bureaucratic absurdity without sounding deliberately funny. Never soulful, grunge or dramatic.] [suno::Chris Frank drives the performance with unusually aggressive closed hi-hat. Fast sharp repeated hi-hat attacks dominate the drum sound. Snare remains dry, restrained and comparatively quiet. Minimal fills.] [suno::Tina Wakeman plays loud punchy melodic syncopated bass. Bass drives the dance groove.] [suno::Clean Telecaster uses short muted strokes and angular attacks. No solo or distortion.] [suno::Jimmy uses sparse Farfisa stabs and brief sustained notes. Never create lush keyboard layers.] [suno::Female backing vocal gives short formal responses.] [suno::The phrase Next… Please… begins as David’s dry bureaucratic cue. Audience recognizes it and gradually chants it without being formally instructed. By the ending it becomes a strange spontaneous party anthem.] [suno::Raw live mix with PA coloration, stage bleed, room reflections and audience voices bleeding into stage microphones.] [suno::SECTION=INTRO] [suno::Berlin crowd audible. Tina starts bass riff. Chris enters with aggressive hi-hat and restrained snare. Guitar and Farfisa join sparsely.] [suno::SECTION=VERSE_1] [suno::David almost speaks. Leave gaps after bureaucratic phrases for audience laughter.] [suno::SECTION=CHORUS] [suno::Maintain fast groove. Do not become rock-heavy. Female voice gives clipped responses.] [suno::SECTION=VERSE_2] [suno::Hi-hat grows more insistent. Audience movement and clapping become audible.] [suno::SECTION=BRIDGE] [suno::Drop guitar. Keep bass, aggressive hi-hat, quiet snare and Farfisa. David introduces Next… Please… with deadpan timing.] [suno::SECTION=FINAL_CHORUS] [suno::Full groove returns. Audience begins repeating Next… Please… between vocal phrases.] [suno::SECTION=OUTRO] [suno::Maintain bass and hi-hat groove while audience chant grows. David remains dry and lets the crowd take over. Hard band stop followed by 7–9 seconds of loud cheering and laughter. No fade or restart.] #LYRICS_BLOCK_START [Verse 1] Take a number Find a chair Wait politely Anywhere Window seven Window three Nobody Looks at me Paper folders Rubber stamps Tiny kingdoms Tiny plans Number forty? No. Forty-one? Wait. [Pre-Chorus] Every answer Needs a form Every question Must conform Sign here Not there Try again [Chorus] Government faces Looking through me Government faces Who will I be? Sign my name Stand in line Everything Will be just fine Government faces Smile professionally Thank you. Next… [Verse 2] Plastic chairs Fluorescent skies Invisible Office lives Every counter Every wall Knows exactly Who to call Clock keeps moving Nothing changes Every hallway Turns the pages Excuse me? Wrong window. Next… Please… [Bridge] Behind the glass Behind the smile Are we different All the while? Next… Please… Next… Please… Number forty-two Next… Please… Number forty-three Next… Please… [Final Chorus] Government faces Passing by Government faces Never ask why Different names Same routine Living inside The machine Government faces Looking through me Government faces Smile professionally Next… Please… Next… Please… Government faces! Next… Please… Government faces! Next… Please… [Audience Chant] Next! Please! Next! Please! Next! Please! Next! Please! Number forty-four! Next! Please! Number forty-five! Next! Please! Next! Please! Next! Please! [Outro] Next… Please… Next… Please… Thank you. Next! #LYRICS_BLOCK_END