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In the 1970's |
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The OPEC nations began to dominate |
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The world's oil economy |
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In the 1980's, Japan became the world's |
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Number one economic power |
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In 1989 the nations of Eastern Europe |
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Attempted to restructure |
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While in the United States civil rights have |
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Collapsed at the hands of fundamentalists |
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And national insecurity's at an all time high |
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Exxon and on and on and on |
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The ministers of double speak |
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New meanin' of clean they tried to teach us |
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They staged the phoney shampoo of the Valdez greases |
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Completely jheri curled the beaches |
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Pipe bomb for the NAACP |
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And a hit on Salman Rushdie, the Berlin Wall comes down |
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And the U.S. cracks down on illegal aliens |
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Ban the freedom of choice for those wantin' abortion |
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And enforce capitol punishment |
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Twenty four hour radio ban |
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For indecency determined by the F.U.C.C. |
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Why are we so anesthetized to the lies? |
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Because we do it in our own lives |
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We believe all the things that we want to hear |
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But then we also love to criticize |
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Bail out the banks loan art to the churches |
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Satanic Reverses |
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Bail-out the banks loan art to the churches |
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Satanic Reverses |
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Bail out the banks loan art to the churches |
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Satanic Reverses |
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Bail out the banks loan art to the churches |
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Satanic Reverses |
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In 1992 the European economic community will reform |
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In 1997 the city of Hong Kong will become |
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A part of the People's Republic of China |
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In 1999, and this is no coincidence |
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The nation of Panama will control it's own canal |
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While in the United States |
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Civil rights have collapsed at the hands of Fundamentalists |
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And national insecurity's at an all time high |
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Helms said ban the photograph of the piss Christ |
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It's sacreligious not an art |
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While we all try to discern between our cup of tea |
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And what we call obscenity, the house's legislation |
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Ripped the phoney foundation off what we thought inherent |
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Sent Joey to the Supreme Court |
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'Cause he made a statement, they called it |
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Desecration of the symbol that was meant to represent |
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The freedom of so called choice and dissent |
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They almost had me believin' it, they were bleedin' him |
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He said, "Burn baby, burn" |
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'Til the street Samurai said to my face |
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That any flag that's worth a shit |
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Was woven from fire in the first place |
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Bail out the banks loan art to the churches |
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Satanic Reverses |
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Bail out the banks loan art to the churches |
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Satanic Reverses |
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Bail out the banks loan art to the churches |
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Satanic Reverses |
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Bail out the banks loan art to the churches |
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Satanic Reverses |
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Bail out the banks loan art to the churches |
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Satanic Reverses |
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Bail out the banks loan art to the churches |
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Satanic Reverses |
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Bail out the banks loan art to the churches |
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Satanic Reverses |
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Bail out the banks loan art to the churches |
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Satanic Reverses |
