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Mother, Father, please explain to me |
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Why a world so full of mystery |
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A place so bitter and still so sweet |
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So beautiful and yet so full of sad, sad |
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Mother, Father, please explain to me |
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Why forests march to desert speed |
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While snowcapped mountains melt away |
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What do we tell our babies, when do we say, oh |
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Mother, Father, please explain to me |
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How a man who rocks his child to sleep |
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Pulls the trigger on his brother's heart |
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He digs a hole right to the middle of this storm of hatred |
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Mother, Father, please explain to me |
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How it could be so this world has come to be |
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A precious balance in between |
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Such cruelty and such kindness [Incomprehensible] please |
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Mother, Father, please explain to me |
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How this world has come to be |
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Unequaled in her blessings, oh, I see |
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Unbridled hatred so extreme, please tell me |
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Mother, Father, please explain to me |
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How this world has come to be so |
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Twisted between time and dreams |
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Oh, Mother, Father, please explain to me |
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Oh, what's all this talk about? |
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All this talk about it |
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Spinning down, down, down, down, down |
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All this talk about |
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Oh, endless words without |
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Nothing's done |
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Mother, Father, do you know |
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Why one man's belly overflows? |
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Another sleeps in hunger's bed |
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Oh, we trade our world for a piece of bread |
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Oh, Mother, Father, please explain to me |
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How this rare world's come to be |
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A place so full of color yet overflowing always in black and white |
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Drowning in the waters of our |
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Mother, Father, please explain to me |
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How this world has come to be |
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While still blessed in all the things we see |
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Such a sad, sad home for you and me |
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Come [Incomprehensible], come on out you |
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Come on out you, come and save yourself |
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Come on out you, come on, we're taking the water |
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We're taking the water, we're taking the water |
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But you know |
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We got the freedom, we got the freedom |
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There's no God above |
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And no Hell below |
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Oh, it's here with us |
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It's up to us to keep afloat |
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How this sweet world has come to be |
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Oh, to keep afloat |
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Mother, Father, please explain to me |
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How this rare world has come to be |
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Oh, let the blue planet |
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Let the blue planet |
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Mother, Father, please explain to me |
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Mother, Father, please explain |
