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They'd spend a lifetime, |
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And fight over lines, |
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Which you and me |
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Could never control. |
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I'm feeling a sense |
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Of imaginable loss, |
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Over people I don't even know. |
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We used to be such |
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Intelligent Animals, |
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Ohhh. |
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Lamenting the loss |
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Of Intelligent Animals. |
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If Darwin could see |
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What we turned out to be, |
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He'd probably admit he was wrong. |
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So pray did St. Christopher, down on your knees |
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'Cause in 50 years, we'll all be gone, ohoh. |
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We used to be such, |
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Intelligent Animals. |
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Oooh |
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So tell me where are these |
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Intelligent Animals. |
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Oooh |
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Keep walking away, |
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You Intelligent Animals |
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Animals, Animals |
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Ooooh! Now we behave, like, we lost all/our control |
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Now we behave, like, we lost all/our control |
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Now we behave, like. |
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Because Darfur is a place without history, Darfur is a place without politics. |
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Darfur is simply a dot on the map. |
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It is simply a place, a site, where perpetrator confronts victim. And the perpetrator's name is Arab, and the victim's name is African. |
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And it is easy to demonize. |
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It is easy to hold a moral position which is emptied of its political content. |
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This bothered me, and so I wrote about it. |
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Oooh! |
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Oh, Intelligent Animals. |
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Intelligent Animals! |
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Intelligent Animals! |
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Intelligent Animals.. |
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And Animals, Animals. |
