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I was born and raised an orphan In a land
that once was free In a land that poured

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its love out on the moon And I grew up in
the shadows Of your silos filled with

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grain But you never helped to fill my
empty spoon.

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And when I was ten, you murdered law with
courtroom politics.

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And you learned to make a lie sound just
like truth.

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But I know you better now, and I don't
fall for all your tricks.

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And you've lost the one advantage of my
youth.

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You kill a black man at midnight just for
talking to your daughter.

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Then you make his wife your mistress,
and you leave her without water.

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And the sheet you wear upon your face is
the sheet your children sleep on.

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And at every meal you say a prayer you
don't believe, but still you keep on.

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And your money says in God we trust,
but it's against the law to pray in

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school.

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You say we beat the Russians to the moon,
and I say you start your children to do

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it.

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You are far across the ocean in a war
that's not your own.

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And while you're winning theirs,
you're gonna lose the one at home.

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Do you really think the only way to bring
about the peace is to sacrifice your

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children and kill all your enemies?

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The politicians all make speeches,
while the newsmen all take notes.

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And they exaggerate the issues as they
shove it down our throats.

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Is it really up to them whether this
country sinks or floats?

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Well, I wonder who would need us if none
of us would vote.

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Well, my phone is tapped and my lips are
chapped from whispering through the fence.

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You know every move I make, or is that
just coincidence?

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Will you try to make my way of life a
little less like jail if I promise to make

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tapes and slides and send them through the
mail?

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And your money says in God we trust,
but it's against the law to pray in

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school.

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You say we beat the Russians to the moon,
and I say you starve your children to do

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it.

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You say all men are equal, all men are
brothers, then why are the rich more equal

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than others?

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Don't ask me for the answers, I've only
got one.

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That a man leaves his darkness when he
follows the sun.