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Four sins past sainthood |
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It's like I'm dying to forget |
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All the sleepless nights |
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Lying perfectly alone and still |
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I can drink till victory |
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I'll drink to the mighty |
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Drink until I die |
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Or at least until the sunrise |
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When honesty, as popular as a plague |
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Comes to remind me |
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The dead's winning the race with me |
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Going nowhere |
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Right down the street, a prostitute is selling the closest thing to love |
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That this country has to offer |
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And Alachua still sleeps tonight, and Alachua still sleeps tonight |
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And Alachua still sleeps tonight |
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So we fought for the republic |
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While the Catholic sun filled every eye |
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From the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, victory |
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I'll drink to the mighty |
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We died for oil |
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We died for borders |
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Killed for democracy |
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Still believed every platform |
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Can you handle the death, accept what we create together? |
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I still know every politician's a fucking monster |
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Culture kills bureaucrats and all other undesirables |
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History said we died for freedom but today no justice was served |
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And America still sleeps tonight |
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And America still sleeps tonight |
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And America still sleeps tonight |
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And I hope it doesn't wake up tomorrow |
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So we boasted that we were champions |
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Each country singing its own praise like a rock thrown into the ocean |
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Humanity was rising to the top, two world wars later |
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Countless military interventions, we erect monuments to history |
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And give apologies to the dead |
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All that was fought for the living is quickly forgotten |
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We don't remember the dates, we don't remember the reasons, we have no idea what's going on |
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Building histories of western corporations |
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It doesn't even turn my stomach to see the pictures of atrocities anymore |
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Going numb in the new order of the new century |
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And Alachua still sleeps tonight, and America still sleeps tonight |
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And the world still sleeps tonight |
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And Alachua still sleeps tonight |
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And America still sleeps tonight |
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And the world still sleeps tonight |