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These are the growing pains |
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Baby born; body must change |
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These are the growing pains |
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Skin and bone learn to replicate |
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Is to divide, destroy themselves |
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Towards a whole and greater health |
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These are the growing pains |
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Love is born; life must change |
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These are the growing pains |
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Skin and bone yearn to congregate |
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They push and pull to meet and become one |
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Forge a frontier and a language common |
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I've been heartbroken for a year and a day |
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My adultery put my child to bed in shame |
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She's not feeling well. She won't come out to play |
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All he other girls and boys, they know what's best : |
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Forgive the past and live for the present |
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These are the growing pains |
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Nation born; nature must change |
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These are the growing pains |
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We came by boats, in hopes, in chains |
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Felled the forest for farm and firewood |
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And built a church on the hill to pray for the greater good |
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These are the growing pains |
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Country born; conscience must change |
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These are the growing pains |
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By gunpoint and penpoint, the west was claimed |
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As one main's burden, another's manifest destiny |
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With peace and justice divided unequally |
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I've been heartbroken for a year and a day |
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My adultery put my child to bed in shame |
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She's not feeling well. She won't come out to play |
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All he other girls and boys, they know what's best : |
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Forgive the past and live for the present |
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These are the growing pains |
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Love is born; life must change |
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These are the growing pains |
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The breakdown of the barricades |
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There's fear and cowardice to be overcome |
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By instinct, force and momentum |
