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This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it |
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Texas teaBut it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso |
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It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies |
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Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international |
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The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco |
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Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than |
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TabascoMore than what you bargained for or asked for |
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You never see happy hungry people that ain't rational |
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They blasting through the gates and they attack you at the capital |
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Run up in your palace, find the head of the states and crack a few |
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Get a taste of power then they become fascists too |
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The fiscal conservatives, don't know what they purpose is |
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Money on the war then they cut the goods and services |
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Murderous, corporate monsters is breaking records |
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Exxon is at 40 billion a year, they raking in record profits, stop it |
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How they banking while the auto industry is tanking? |
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Leadership is sinking, oil pollution in the water stanking |
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Loyalty to petroleum, royalty spoiled the economy |
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We won't get it poppin' till we're oil-free |
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If you're oil rich then we invade it |
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They call it occupation but we're losing jobs across the nation |
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Drill, baby, drill, while they make our soldiers kill |
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Baby, still, the desert where the blood and oil spill |
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This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it |
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Texas teaBut it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso |
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It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies |
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Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international |
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The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco |
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Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than |
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TabascoMore than what you bargained for or asked for |
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Nigeria is celebrating 50 years of independence |
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They still feel the colonial effects of |
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Great Britain's presence |
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Dictators quick to imitate the |
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WestGot in bed with oil companies and now the place is a mess |
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Take a guess, which ones came and violated |
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They oiled up the soil, the |
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Ogoni people was almost annihilated |
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But still they never stayed silent |
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They was activists and poets using non-violent tactics |
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That was catalyst for soldiers to break into they crib |
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And make examples of the leaders, executed |
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Saro-WiwaThrew |
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Fela's mom out the window right after they beat her |
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In an effort to defeat hope, now the people's feet soaked in oil |
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So the youth is doing drive-bys through speed boats |
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They kidnap the workers, they blowing up the pipelines |
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You see the fires glowing in the nighttime |
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This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it |
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Texas teaBut it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso |
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It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies |
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Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international |
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The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco |
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Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than |
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TabascoMore than what you bargained for or asked for |
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History, a slippery creature |
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It's full of plot twists and surprise endings like a mystery feature |
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This oil shit is slicker than preachers |
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It make the problems in the region amplify like victory speeches |
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Poison the water and lead the boys to the slaughter |
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Go in somebody country and rearrange the order |
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And destroy the borders |
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You see them dancing through the fields of fire |
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World domination, their real desire, the devil is still a liar |
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This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it |
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Texas teaBut it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso |
|
It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies |
|
Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international |
|
The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco |
|
Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than |
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TabascoMore than what you bargained for or asked for |
|
This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it |
|
Texas teaBut it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso |
|
It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies |
|
Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international |
|
The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco |
|
Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than |
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TabascoMore than what you bargained for or asked for |