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It's a movie and the whole world is viewing it |
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And the popcorn is dreams torn, but we're always chewing it. |
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(They said) Dishonest by God but the costumes by the devil |
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And the screenplay is adapted from a book that's embezzled. |
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This is where I grew up. |
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This is where I grew proud. |
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This is where neighbors never say music is too loud. |
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This is where the streets have no name, but they have history. |
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This is loss is victory. |
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Oh my name it ain't nothing; my age it means less. |
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The country I come from could be like the rest. |
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I was taught and brought up there, laws to abide |
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And the land that I live in has God on its side. |
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I was young; I grew. I could tie my shoe. |
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I was blind, but I knew that I would always see blue. |
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Blue seas I see through on the bottom I'll meet you |
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And when we come up for a breath would you mind if I kiss you? |
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Childhood came up for the kiss, but it slips its pain in with mist |
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And the sunny skies came and I missed it, |
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Vanished and when swept. |
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Landed we slept in the arms of convenience, blanket obedience. |
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Now to some of the Americans, |
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War had its day |
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And the Civil War too was soon laid away |
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And the names of our warlords |
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I was made to memorize. |
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With guns in their hands, they said, |
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God's on their side. |
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I had an undying wish to keep from dying. |
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I had an untimely hitch keep me from climbing |
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But I climbed a hitch itself and I tried flying. |
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I had an uprising in my soul. |
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The left was fight in the right |
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And the right was fight in the light |
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And the light was blind in the night |
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And the night woke up in tears |
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When my fingers went to wipe them |
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They became a poem but to write then |
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They would have to speak tears in another language |
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That would take years. |
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So now as I'm leavin' |
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I'm weary as Hell |
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The confusion I'm feelin' |
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Ain't no tongue can tell |
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The words fill my head |
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And fall to the floor |
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If God's on our side then would you ever need war? |
