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Speak upon an issue strain your brain tissue |
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But you don't raise your voice 'cause you're afraid someone will diss |
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You |
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Words are needing saying so you'd better say them quick |
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'Cause second lady Tipper's gonna zip a ****ing lip |
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And what are you going to do when Uncle Scam has got your tongue-tied |
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I don't waste a word 'cause I know well that more than one died |
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To get across the thought the point the words we take for granted |
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But you live in the U.S. Tianamen Square's another planet |
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Injustice anywhere threatens my security |
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'Cause I'm no shining example of a racial purity |
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Mr. David Duke is not a fluke or threat or promise |
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He's a mighty voting block to keep the real humans honest |
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You've got to get up stand up be conscious every day |
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Cast your vote in the ballots plus the dollars that you pay |
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If St. Ids's supplies the sorrow then it's time to get wise |
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Cast out the bottle open your eyes and rise |
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Rise |
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From the center of my being I'm seeing a growing movement |
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In my youth I was seeking truth where as now a social improvement |
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Generation X has got to flex on politicians |
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When they're on a power mission and money makes their decisions |
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Hypocrisy has got to be the root of this democracy |
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It'd mean a lot to me to see a Mabon lobotomy |
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All discrimination contradicts our father's nation |
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Give us your sick and tired and hungry unless they're sick and tired |
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And Haitian |
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Because we hate them foreigners and imports but then again |
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We never seemed too fond of our own Native Americans |
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Ethnic cleansing we say is something we're against |
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But it's called domestic policy on this side of the fence |
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We're willing to step in and get in and push Iraqis off of you |
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It's just too bad they've got no oil out in Bosnia |
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We're willing to make a move but it depends on who's attacking you |
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'Cause damn we still have a lot of money tied up in South Africa |
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I'd look in the paper but I can't see through all the smoke |
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Everyone's complaining but not registered to vote |
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It takes a lot of effort in the nineties to survive |
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Give it up for revolution if you can't compromise |
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Rise |
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Come down all youth when me say open your eyes |
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Lick a shot if you know you must rise |
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Come down all youth when me say open your eyes |
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Give it up for revolution if you can't compromise |
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Come down all youth when me say open your eyes |
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Lick a shot if you know you must rise |
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Come down all youth when me say open your eyes |
