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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Forty million refugees with no place
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on this earth to call there home
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One for every aimless graduate with nothing
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else to show for it but loans
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And those of us who make our mark
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use someone else's blood
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Our western stain won't wash away,
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it won't vanish in the flood
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It seeps deeper through each hurricane
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and tidal wave and war
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Oh woah oh oh
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We want everything we see and once
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it's gone we just want more
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Verse 2
Atlas had those shoulders,
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we've got Ambien and Jameson's and blow
To bind us in a bubble and keep the news
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print nightmare distant and remote
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But when we wake in gulitines and
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pitch our screaming fit s
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When the govenor strikes up the
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band and gags our parted lips
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When the worst case shows up dressed and dazzling,
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ready for the ball
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Oh woah oh oh
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But that bubbles bound to burst and
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what a tragic way to fall
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Verse 3
The tabloids tell us hate
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The rat who strikes those subways
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closed and put's you out
Forget those fifty hour tunnel weeks
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Inhaling steel dust poison
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through his mouth
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Well if he don't deserve a pension
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it makes his family feel secure
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If we're now so dissconected it's
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our reflections we ignore
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And if our constant choice is skim
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ming past the writing on the wall
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Oh woah oh oh
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Then I'm sad to say we're lost
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and I'm embar rassed for us all
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Verse 4
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So most days I can't put to rest the burn
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ing city smoking in my mind
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And I play and pretend the principles are noth
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in' more than actors runnin' lines
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And I stumble through a movie
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set where tourtered victims laugh
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And embedded journalists who juggle
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knives and daggered glass
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While they entertain a mob of
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heads of state and CEO's
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Oh woah oh oh
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I stagger pas t anarchist extras
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through saloon doors painted gold
Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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So I
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turn and I see Uncle Sam outside a wardroube ready for a shoot
So I walk right up and talk to him,
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I tell him that I'm scared and I'm confused
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And while they test the cameras
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out and get the lighting right
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While the catering fills coffee cups
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and carves up apple pie
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And while the stylists trim his beard
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and straighten those clothes
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Oh woah oh oh
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I ask his empires what made
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him drive us straight to hell
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And as my daydream ends, he stands ashamed,
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a shocked and shattered shell
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But there's nev er any answer for
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my starving tongue to tell
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Woah oh oh oh
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'Cause the director shouted action,
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and from offset its just as well
Outro 1
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