Shut Up And Sing

INTRO:
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VERSE:
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I was told not long ago that I 
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can't talk the way I do
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Singers shouldn't share their 
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current affairs or worldly views
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Sayin' somethin' off the wall just 
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might bend folks outta shape
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Hard workin' people spend their 
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paychecks to show up and escape
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So put a plug in what you think
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Man, shut up and sing


VERSE:
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So I pulled out my guitar and I gave
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 it a strum
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And I thought about the way I'd lay
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 it out there if one
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Lone song was all I had to make it 
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all make half sense
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To put some heart back on the 
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forefront, collective consciousness
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Can't be dead as my six strings
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I wondered, would I shut up and 
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sing?
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Then it hit me


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CHORUS:
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Shut up and sing, "Lord have mеrcy 
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on all us earthly fools"
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There's poison in our rhеtoric and 
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bullets in our schools
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So I'll sing, "What the hell is 
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going on around here?"
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Let's take these blinders off our 
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eyes and pull the cotton from our 
ears
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Until somebody says somethin' that 
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means somethin', I'll
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Shut up and sing


VERSE:
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Sometimes sayin' nothin' says it all
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 and then some more
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Conjecture causes bull and fuels 
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unnecessary wars
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Poets know hiding the truth 
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somewhere between the lines somehow
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Makes it seem worth more for those 
looking to find
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Some answers to the troubles this 
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life brings
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Shut up and sing


CHORUS:
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Shut up and sing, "Lord forgive us 
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for we know not what we do"
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They're shouting from the mountains
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 down to south border towns too
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Shut up and sing, "What the hell is
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 going on around here?"
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Let's take these blinders off our 
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eyes and pull the cotton from our 
ears
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Till somebody says somethin' that 
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means something, I'll
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Shut up and sing


INSTRUMENTAL:
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VERSE:
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Songs got ways of going places folks
 have never been
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From one side of the world round 
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and round and back again
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Universal unity ain't realistic, no,
 oh
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But who says we can't hum one for 
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the hell of it all?
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You never know how true a melody 
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might ring till
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You shut up and sing

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