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in a forest of stone underneath a corporate canopy |
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where the sun rarely filters down |
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the ground is not so soft |
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it is not so soft |
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they build buildings to house people making money |
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or they build buildings to make money housing people |
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it's true, like a lot of things are true |
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foraging from a phone booth on the forest floor |
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that is not so soft |
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i look up, it looks like the builidings are burning |
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but it's just the sun, setting in the windows |
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the solar system calling an end to another business day |
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eternally circling, signalling the rythmic clicking on and off |
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of computers |
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the pulse .. of the american machine |
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the pulse .. that draws death dancing |
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out of anonymous side streets |
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you know, the ones that always get dumped on |
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but never get ploughed |
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it draws death dancing out of little countries |
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with funny languages |
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where the ground is getting harder and it was |
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not that soft before |
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but those who call the shots |
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are never in the line of fire |
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why |
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when there's life for hire out there |
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if the flag of truth were raised |
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we could watch every liar rise to wave it |
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here we learn america like a script |
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playright, birthright - same thing |
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we bring ourselves to the role |
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we're all rehearsing for the presidency |
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i always wanted to be commander in chief |
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of my own one woman army |
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but i can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour |
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it's the failed america in me |
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it's the fear that lives |
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in a forest of stone, underneath the corporate canopy |
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where the sun rarely filters down |
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and the ground |
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is not so soft...... |
