Ode To Liberty

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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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 The dream was not a vision or some premonition like we were told
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 It was no figment of the imagination, to prove   that we could be bought or sold
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 The doctor of the diamond run could be revealed to the intelligent
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But this is what I resent, who cares for the ignorant,  the intelligent
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  The cynics approach was mean, who cares for anything in this whole wide world except me
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And this opinion must not confuse the issue, my appearance my condition or state of delivery
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I am stating the obvious, this is a protest
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There must be a conclusion, this is no Shakespearean speech
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This is a statement  made by one who cannot practice what he preaches


[Verse 2]
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The Statue of Liberty has engraved on its wall
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"Give me your poor, give me your needy,  give me them all"
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 We need something like this, for this world to coexist
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 It would be so easy to act   so pretentious
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To act as if it was hypocrisy,   to act    condescending
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 When in fact it's the world we're mending, and that's why I can't relax
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'Cause inside my coat it's a pistol that I pack
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We must beware   of a surprise nuclear attack
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      We must be ready to strike back.   I'm not pretending
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     Our defences need mending. We must leave those standing
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 Forget the third world is ending, is starving
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    Is crying,      is desolate,   is oh so late


[Verse 3]
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 I would dearly love to return through a mirror in twenty years
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 And learn what the future has in store for us
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 And if I learned that we lost and there was no hope for those that fight
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      I would turn to drink, and drink is drugs,   and drugs would help me sink
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 And like a boat I float, I sail out to the sky
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      To the universe and back,      maybe to give it another try
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      I don't know why, why Jack
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          Just to confirm our father.
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Just to learn, just to heal us