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How could you beat your woman till you see tears? |
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Got your children living in fear, |
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How you gonna wash the blood from your hands? |
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Selling death to fiends |
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Barely fifteens |
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So you can roll around pushing the whip of your dreams |
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Tell me.. |
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How you gonna wash the blood from your hands? |
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You claim you're doing |
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God's work |
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Greet the family with a smile |
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When all the while |
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You been raping that child |
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You a priest but you still can't |
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Wash the blood from your hands. |
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The self hate they create in your hair |
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Got you pickin' up their weapons |
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And leaving your brothers there, |
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Tell me.. |
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How you gonna wash the blood from your hands? [Chorus] |
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I wonder what you gon' do |
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When he comes for you |
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Where you gon' run |
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Once he calls for you |
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Where you gonna hide |
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The day he sends for you |
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And he questions you |
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I wonder what you gonna say |
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When that day comes |
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When judgement day comes |
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I'm talking bout the sins you commit giving orders that permit, |
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Killing innocent kids so you can fill your pockets |
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Tell me how you gonna wash the blood from your hands? |
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Now take a look at these project buildings |
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They got us living in |
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It's like we're raised in prison cos of the colour of our skin |
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Now how you gonna wash the blood from your hands? |
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The pharmaceutical industry need to get paid |
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They're sitting on a cure |
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Watching new born babies die of |
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AIDS Tell me how you gonna wash the blood from your hands? |
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How could you keep exploiting third world children |
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Using them as underpaid slaves |
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So you can make your millions |
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How you gonna wash the blood from your hands? [Repeat Chorus] |
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We sit and watch why people get hurt |
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Stand to say nothing while they do the devil's work |
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Walk straight by leave them crying in the dirt |
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What kind of people does that make me n you? |
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And we could have all the good intent |
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But we sitting in silence |
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We committing greed and violence |
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Then we got blood on our hands too |
