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((___)) ((___))
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[ x x ] cDc communications [ x x ]
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\ / presents... \ /
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(` ') (` ')
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(U) (U)
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Lyrics to Both Youth Of Today Albums
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by The Pusher
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>>> A CULT Publication......1988 <<<
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-cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc-
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YOT in general: Though their straight-edge views are very militant, the music
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is why YOT is one of the best bands on the New York City hardcore scene.
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Break Down the Walls-Revelation Records
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John "Porcell"- 1st guitar
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Craig- bass
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Drew- drums
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Ray of Today- vocals
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Ritchie- 2nd guitar
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All songs (C) 1986 Youth Crew Jams
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Make A Change
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I see on the streets
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As we walk right by
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What little value we place on human lives!
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But it's time we get priorities
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It's time to rearrange
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Won't turn away any longer
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It's time we make a change
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People so cold
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They ignore others' pain
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People too proud to realize they're the same
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Thinking Straight
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Life's filled with many paths
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Which one should I take?
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When the choice comes, I won't run
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I'll be thinking straight!
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Life's filled with conflicts...we'll face
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We'll overcome them...thinking straight!
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Experiment with your mind
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You see things I can't see
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Well no thanks, friend
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Because now it ends when you push that shit on me!
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My mind is free to think and see.
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Strong enough to resist temptation
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We've been strong for all these years
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Yes, life gets rough, so we'll stand tough
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And confront all our fears!
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Stabbed In The Back
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We were brothers, you and me
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Loyal to our hardcore scene
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Our thoughts, our aims, our goals were true
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Then something happened to you
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You changed
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I remember all the things that you said
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Shit you said!
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I guess it was just a bunch of fucking lies
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Fucking lies!
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Stabbed us all right in the back
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Right in the back!
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Don't you dare look me in the eye!
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All we stood for, all our dreams
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You've forgotten what they mean
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I tell you this
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My thoughts are real, and I'll never change
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The way I feel!
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Take A Stand
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I see you here
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Do you have pride?
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Afraid to share what's inside
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You've been walked right by
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A real nice guy
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Overlooked and shoved aside
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Can't hear your voice back in the crowd
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Move up front and shout out loud!
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Take a stand!
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Take a stand, say what you feel
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Be who you want, but be for real!
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Voice your opinion, don't just sit still
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Speak your mind at your free will
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Take a stand!
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Stand your ground
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Don't let the world push you around
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Take a stand!
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Stand your ground
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Don't let the world push you around
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Honesty
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You steal and take from everyone else
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Do you feel good about yourself?
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Instead of taking, try to give
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And then you'll feel good about the way you live
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Honesty
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Too many of us filled with greed
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Overlooking those who need
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Open your eyes and change your ways
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Open your heart and break away
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One Family
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I have so much hope and anticipation
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For the future generations
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I think kids today are growing up smart
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With open minds and open hearts
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We can do it!
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We'll put our heads to it
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And then we'll be
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One family!
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A world filled with racial stress
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But it seems every year less and less
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Those old fashioned statements are going away
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Tomorrow will be a brighter day!
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We can do it!
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We'll put our hearts to it
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And then we'll be
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One family!
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Break Down The Walls
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I used to think that labels were just symbols of pride
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But over time I've seen they only serve to divide
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It's so easy to judge people by the way they seem to be
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We must overcome this problem to live peacefully
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Break
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Down
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The Walls!
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Yes, we'll break down the walls!
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Look beyond the fashion of the crowd they are in
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Look beyond their riches or the color of their skin
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Look beyond appearance and the truth you will find
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Look for what's inside before you make up your mind!
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Break
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Down
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The Walls!
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We'll all break down the walls!
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Shout It!
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Not on this stage to take up space
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I'm here to communicate face to face
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I'll hold my head up high and...shout it!
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Look you in the eye and...shout it!
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Hold my head up high...shout it!
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Look you in the eye and shout it!
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Criticized for speaking out
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I guess you don't know what we're about
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So i'll hold my head up high...and shout it!
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Look you in the eye and...shout it!
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Hold my head up high...shout it!
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Look you in the eye and shout it!
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We're just some friends who want to be heard
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Through our music, we'll spread our word
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Trying our best to figure what life is about
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Seeing the good makes me want to shout!
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Shout it!
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There's nothing wrong saying my part
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The message I cry is from the heart
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Won't change my ideas just to please you
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You've built the walls, we're breaking through!
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Time To Forgive
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In the back of my mind
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It keeps me on edge!
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A soul filled with love
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But I can't help but feel contempt instead
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So let's forget the past and
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The grudges that we hold
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If we don't do it soon you
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Know it will explode
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Let's shape a better way of life
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Time to forgive!
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I'm sorry for the bottled up anger
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What was it about?
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It's time to forgive
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I'm glad that's all over now
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Positive Outlook
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Through the clouds I see the light
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My conscience tells me what's wrong and right
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Morals and goals deep inside
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A bunch of feelings I can't hide, but that's me
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It's the way I live
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My outlook on life is positive!
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So why should I hide or try to conceal
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All of these feelings that I feel
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I like to sit and talk about them
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I want to stand and shout them!
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Standing Hard
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Proud of who I am, what I say, and what I do
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Proud of who I am, what I say, and what I do!
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I'm standing hard!
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Free At Last
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The world is filled with competition and greed
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A disgusting way of life
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But we'll try to break...
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Free!
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Free at last!
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From the animals in the slaughterhouse
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To the drugs on the streets
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They'll pollute our minds, our bodies
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But I know we'll break...
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We've got to break free!
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We'll try...No!...we'll do it!
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The monotonous of the working class
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We'll never fall into that rut
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We'll keep fighting until we are free at last!
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Youth Of Today
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The kids will make it happen
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We're starting a new way
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People helping people
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In the world today
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Physically strong
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Morally straight
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Positive youth
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We're the youth of today
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Never fight with each other
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Use our hands before our fists
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Then we'll kick down all the barriers
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Of hate and prejudice
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Live fast die young
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was just a fad
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For a bunch of losers
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Who didn't care
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I'm gonna live my life
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Breathe every breath
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Look towards the future
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And move straight ahead
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We're Not In This Alone-Caroline Records
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Porcell- guitar
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Walter- bass
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Ray of Today- vocals
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Sammy- drums
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Flame Still Burns
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Made their threats
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Ruin your name
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Thought I was broken
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But the spirit remains
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And this flame will keep on burning strong
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And I will still continue to sing this song
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Bad mouthed behind us
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Taken their shots
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But this tattered body will never be stopped.
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And this flame will keep on burning strong
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And I will still continue to sing this song
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We've heard it all before and we're ready for
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Some more
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If you think I'm gonna break, it's gonna take
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More than what you've got!
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Don't count me out
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Cause I've got some more
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And I'm back with more strength
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And vigor than before
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And this flame will keep on burning strong
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And I will continue to sing this song
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My feelings in the music and the words are written
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In stone
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And I know I'm not singing this song alone!
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Slow Down
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Lost the time to live
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No time to take
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Caught in a cycle that won't give you a break
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Tensions running high
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I can see it in your eyes
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You call that success I call it a lie
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Slow down
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I've got to slow down
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Cause I want to see
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All of what this world has to offer me
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Take a break
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Appreciate
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Before this lifetime slips away
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Slow down
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Try to think back
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A long time ago
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When life was for living and the pace was slow
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Wasn't it worth it? Will you stay?
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I hope I don't let it slip away
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Choose To Be
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Not gonna
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Keep up my guard
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To prove I'm hard
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Or put on some act
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To earn your respect
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Cause that's not the type I want to live
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And that's not the type of energy I want to give!
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I guess I'm not cool
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According to you
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For having some friends
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Who don't seem to fit in
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Well that's not the type of life I want to live
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And that's not the type of energy I want to give!
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I guess you don't see
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Cause you seem to be
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Real tough
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But living in misery
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Put It Aside
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Maybe I shouldn't have spoken
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Just kept my mouth shut
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Maybe all the effort didn't help much
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Singing for better conditions and hoping
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For better days
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Not saying we're perfect of looking
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For some praise
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Gossip, rumors, just plain lies, and we're on the same side
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Gossip, rumors let's put it aside
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Fuck, we're on the same side!
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Knowing if I stumble, aware if I fall
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I don't need fingers pointed at me if you're not trying at all
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Not trying to come off righteous, just always tried to be sincere
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Didn't mean to come off so well learned cause I'm just another peer
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I know what I'm shooting for
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I know how I felt
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And I don't have to prove it to anybody because
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I already proved it to myself
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No matter where I am in this world
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I'll know exactly where I stand
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I thought we were on the same side
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But at least I know I've tried
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Wake Up and Live
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Wake up and live your life
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See what there is to see
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I won't sit around all day
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Cause life means more to me
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So many kids content
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To sleep their lives away
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But I'm gonna try
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To make the most out of this day
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It takes some motivation
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It takes some love for life
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Why just sit complacent
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And let life pass you by?
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Boredom is a choice
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I choose not to make
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Unlock that door, strive for more
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There's a better path to take
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Wake up and live-breathe every breath
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Wake up and live-until my death
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Wake up and live so much to do
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Wake up and live-all of you
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C'mon...open your eyes
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No More
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Meateating, flesheating, think about it
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So callous to this crime we commit
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Always stuffing our face with no sympathy
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What a selfish, hardened society
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So no more just looking out for myself...
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When the price paid is life of something else
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No more I won't participate!
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We've got the power we've got the might
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To take what ever is in sight
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Not even worried, it's an unfair fight
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Well we've got a heart to us what's right so...
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Our numbers are doubling in '88
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Cause the people are starting to educate
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Themselves, their friends and their families
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And we'll have a more conscious caring society
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What Goes Around
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A half ass commitment, a casual act
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Shows me the decency that you lack
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You're fucking with feelings and fucking with heads
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And "live for the moment" is all that you've said
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What goes around comes around so watch yourself
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Cause you're falling down
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Abusing, misusing you're out of control
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Your mind, spirit and body will take their toll
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A slave to your senses, I see nothing more
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Cause temporary pleasure is what you strive for
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Taken what you've wanted, stepped on what's in your way
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But there will be a price that you'll have to pay
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Easy acquaintances, broken friends, happy now
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But the loser in the end
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Broken promises, broken hearts
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Walk away when the pain starts
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You take what's yours you still want more
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If you only knew what's in store...
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Potential Friends
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Here I sit so shy
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Wondering what's going through your mind
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Or what you're even like
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As time ticks quickly by
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A life so short, incomplete
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So many people I'd like to meet
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Feeling awkward, afraid
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Potential friends I could've made
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Why do we keep to ourselves
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And dare not leave our shells?
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Let our feelings and emotions blend..
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We could be the best of friends
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A Time We'll Remember
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This is a time that we can live our dreams
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And a time so pure, at least it seems
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A simple life a modest one where money plays a minor role
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And I pray and I'll try to keep this spirit inside as I start to grow old
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This is an era of creativity, good music, and good friends
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And the dreams that we reach for seem to be at the tips of our hands
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And it's getting too late to appreciate and it soon will be the past
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But I'll still have these memories, but why can't they last?
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Maybe they can!
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This is a time we'll remember
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This is a time with a lot of hope and very little fear
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And a time where every move we made seems so sincere
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But when the song is sung and the moment's gone only you'll
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Know all we've shared
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And I hope that you can rekindle too, this sane feeling in the air
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Live Free
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Waving your flag, a blind patriot
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Can no longer see cause your eyes are shut
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"Love it or leave it" is your sentiment
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Instead of working for improvement
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But I want to live free
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And I won't settle for this mediocrity
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Waving your flag, we're number one
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Societies got you under their thumb
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Too ignorant to see through their subtle attack
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To make us content but we must fight back
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You don't love your country, you just love yourself
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Because you sit complacent like everyone else
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If you fight for freedom, then do what's right
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Put down that flag, protest, and come join the fight
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Understand
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I'm caught in a rage
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I'm ready to fight
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My stance is so strong but I've lost my clear sight
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Your thoughts and your actions make me want to attack
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But I'll try to understand, I'll try to step back
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Takes more strength to
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Put down your hands
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I've fought before and I know I can
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I don't want to get hostile, I'd rather
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Understand you
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And try to figure out
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Why you do what you do
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Cut out that act, better step back
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You know we can understand
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You feel it inside, you know it's not right
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When you know we can understand
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Each other
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Prejudice
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Arguing your point about which race is best
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Think you've got some insight, well it's just prejudice
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And the more that you argue the more mad you get
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Well I don't want to fill myself with hate like that
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You're prejudice..just look at you
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You're prejudice..and you're going to be judged too
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You've taken your stance, you've split us apart
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Let's see how many bad feelings you can start
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Trying to make hatred seem real cool
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Keep talking those "facts" you come off the fool
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Unite the race? What? Listen...
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We may be the same race but we're not the same
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You're cowards looking for someone else to blame
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And you're just a few cause most are too smart
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To listen to all the shit that you start
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Keep It Up
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You know it causes more problems
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You're not happy at all
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Every time you indulge
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You realize you fall
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All that you've learned
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Don't take the wrong turn
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If you keep it up you're gonna get burned
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Go ahead keep it up
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I hope you don't keep it up
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A position of respect, live up to it
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You never liked the trend, that's why you quit
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You know what is wrong
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You know that you're strong
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You knew the whole time that you didn't belong
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Behavior Modification.....806/793-9462 The Dead Zone.............214/522-5321
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Demon Roach Underground...806/794-4362 Dragonfire Private........609/424-2606
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Question Authority........715/341-6516 TacoLand II...............517/337-7319
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Tequila Willy's...........209/526-3194 The Metal AE..............201/879-6668
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