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Alanis Morissette - Citizen Of The Planet |
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I start up in the north I grow from special seed |
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I sprinkle it with sensibility |
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From French and Hungarian snow |
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I linger in the sprouting until my engine's full |
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Then I move across the sea |
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To European bliss |
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To language of poets |
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As I cut the cord of home |
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I kiss my mother's mother |
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Look to the horizon |
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Wide eyed, new ground |
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Humbled by my new surroundings |
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I am a citizen of the planet |
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My president is kwan yin |
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My frontier is on an airplane |
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My prisons: homes for rehabilitating |
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Then I fly back to my nest, |
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I fly back with my nuclear but everything is different |
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So I wait, my yearn for home is broadened, |
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patriotism expanded by callings from beyond |
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So I pack my things nothing precious all things sacred |
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My laws are all of attraction |
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My punishments are consequences |
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Separating from source the original sin |
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Democracy's kids are sovereign |
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Where the teachers are the sages |
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And pedestals fill with every parent |
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And so, the next few years are blurry, |
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the next decade's a flurry of smells and tastes unknown |
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Threads sewn straight through this fabric |
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through fields of every color one culture to another |
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I come alive and I get giddy I am taken and globally naturalized |
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From simple roots through high vision |
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I am guarded by the angels |
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My body guides the direction I go in |
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My favorite pastime edge stretching |
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Besotten with human condition |
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These ideals are borne from my deepest within |
