An Interlude Beginning To Take It Back

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[Verse 1]

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Words to describe Nicaragua of old
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Cash crops and hunger and US control
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Coffee and sugar on company land
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Made to supply what the boss would 
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demand


[Pre-Chorus 1]
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Then one July morning in 
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Seventy-Nine
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Nicaragua decided to leave it behind


[Chorus]
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And the people are learning to 
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take back their lives
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As the country will change, 
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Sandinista survives


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[Verse 2]
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Women are winning what they've 
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never known
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The power to organize outside the 
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home
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Starting to find what is equal and 
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fair
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Ensuring that this revolution is 
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shared


[Pre-Chorus 2]
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Regaining lost chances, 
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demanding much more
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Running the factories, fighting 
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the war


[Chorus]
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And the people are learning to 
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take back their lives
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As the country will change, 
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Sandinista survives


[Verse 3]
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Nobody claims that it's over and 
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done
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There's too much depends on 
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enlistment and guns
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And raising their children and 
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filling their plates
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And chasing the Contras to 
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Washington State


[Pre-Chorus 3]
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The Yankee conspiracy thrown to 
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the ground
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That's where the spirit of 
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change can be found


[Chorus]
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And the people are learning to 
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take back their lives
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As the country will change, 
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Sandinista survives