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Intro: You put me here where I don't belong. |
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My body's old but my mind's still strong. |
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You'd not believe the things they put me through. |
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It would be so different if they happened to you. |
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Look around tell me what you see - pain, suffering, and misery. |
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Lonely people who've been locked away. |
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With no desire to live another day. |
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Left to die, I wonder why? We gave you the best years of our lives! |
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Don't you see, you are me and soon it's you they will despise. |
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You don't care, we don't dare. Who needs the hurt we'll just pretend. |
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All is right, day and night, you see a smile but our eyes say- |
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When-When will they end all their apathy |
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When-When will they open their eyes to see |
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When-When will they end the misery |
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When-When will he finally come for me |
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When! |
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Up at six, needle pricks, another day in hell's begun. |
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Someone cries, another dies, we play a game that can't be won. |
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Wet the bed, spoon fed, we relive our childhood again and again. |
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And our sleep is no relief, for in our dreams we still cry- |
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I remember when we were young. |
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No thought at all of what we would become. |
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They sold us a dream-said we'd never die |
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But that was over sixty years ago. |
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We're so much older an now we know, |
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That what they told us was only a lie! |
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Now we realize-what a surprise-everybody dies! |
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Everyday I sit and pray, when will you come and take me home. |
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Where's the love, from above, I feel so lost and all alone. |
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I want to be young and free, not some fourth-class citizen. |
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It won't be long and I'll be gone. 'Till then I'll just keep wondering- |
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Please tell me when! |