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"Ten Green Bottles" is a song for children that is popular in the United Kingdom. In essence the song is a single verse repeated, each time with one bottle fewer:
There are variants with standing or hanging instead of sitting. Other variants include "Ten German Bombers" and the American "99 Bottles of Beer".
There is also a variation in French called "Les Moutons" ('The Sheep') sung by Jacques Brel in the album Jacques Brel 67 (1967).
Actors Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving sing a parody of "Ten Green Bottles" called "Ten Fat Trannies" in the 1993 film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
In Sue Townsend's novel The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole (1982), Adrian's class starts singing "Ten Green Bottles" on the bus during a school trip. They then start singing "Ten Green Snotrags" and the bus driver yells at them.
In the episode "Summer" (2000) of the television show The Vicar of Dibley, Rev. Geraldine and the other members of the church council chain themselves to the church in protest. In the middle of the night, to combat boredom, Frank Pickle (the most dry and boring council member) starts singing, "One hundred thousand green bottles, hanging on the wall. One hundred thousand green bottles, hanging on the wall. And if one green bottle, should accidentally fall, there'll be ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine green bottles, hanging on the wall!" By this time, everyone has joined in.
Now I'm stuck inside this motion
I cannot control
Feel like the waves of the ocean
On top me roll
So can I come up for air
There must be somebody swimming near
To pull me up
I can't breathe down here
But just long enough
So I loosen my fear
That I won't come up again
That I'll sink to the bottom of what I am
At least I'll go down
With a drink in my hand
Maybe that was the problem
To begin
Hold on, cause I'm addicted and I can't change
Oh the path I walk it remains the same
So if I get swept away, playing this game
Remember all that I used to be
Not what I became
Cause I'm addicted and I can't change
Yeah the path I walk it remains the same
So if I get swept away, playing this game
Remember all that I used to be
Not what I became
Oh yeah
Pop the lid
Fill me up and let us swim through my head
Get a sip
No, I can't do that you know
I'm unwell, yeah
But it ain't that easy
Ball and chain attached to my anatomy
Well buried deep inside of me
So far down
That I cannot see
It's so far down
That I cannot see
Cause I'm addicted and I can't change
Yeah the path I walk it remains the same
So if I get swept away, playing this game
Remember all that I used to be
Not what I became
Cause I'm addicted and I can't change
The path I walk it remains the same yeah
So if I get swept away, playing this game
Remember all that I used to be
Not what I became
Not what I became
Oh what I became