Revelation

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i went to the ukraine  they don't 
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have much to eat
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no sugar on the table but the 
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people stay sweet
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i've been to the third world 
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they've got nothing but hope
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through the starving and dying 
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sometimes somehow they cope
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it was a revelation - a revelation
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 - a revelation to me
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i've been to the u.s. promised 
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land of the free
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with the workless and homeless 
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begging on every street
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it was a revelation - a revelation
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 - a revelation to me
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revelation, it was a revelation
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and right here i
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n europe far as can be seen
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butter mountains and wine lakes  
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that much food it's obscene
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now you can label me stupid  or 
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naive with this song
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but when children are starving i 
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know what's right and what's wrong
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it was a revelation - a revelation
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 - a revelation to me
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revelation, it was a revelation,
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 revelation, it was a re - - 
velation
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it was a revelation, a revelation 
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to me.