[00:00.000] 作曲 : David Stefan Rovics
[00:07.746]Let's mark this date together,
[00:09.921]lest it pass us by
[00:12.224]Let's recall a moment when the powder keg ran dry
[00:16.105]When all across the USA cities turned to embers
[00:20.576]Anybody old enough vividly remembers
[00:24.742]Everything that happened on that date
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[00:30.684]Fifty years ago in '68
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[00:37.667]Carpet bombing of the city of Hanoi
[00:40.868]Barely two decades after Little Boy
[00:45.012]Draft cards burning,
[00:47.024]police stations on fire
[00:49.213]The powers-that-be down to the wire
[00:53.273]The naked emperor was the normative state
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[00:59.524]Fifty years ago in '68
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[01:06.200]Both ruling parties were exposed, the question of the day
[01:14.225]Mr President how many kids did you kill today
[01:18.336]If we try to draft more soldiers, said the general, I can't guarantee
[01:22.385]That we could maintain domestic tranquility
[01:26.431]A society on the brink, the possibilities so great
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[01:32.686]Fifty years ago in '68
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[01:38.795]It was a time when people everywhere were rising from their knees
[01:42.801]Just outside the halls of power, throughout the colonies
[01:46.567]From Oakland to Algiers, from Saigon to Paris
[01:51.089]Structures laid bare for all to see
[01:55.488]The use of force alone will not determine our fate
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[02:01.396]Fifty years ago in '68
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[02:07.649]Soldiers were kept in barracks lest they figure out the score
[02:15.760]That love really can be more powerful than war
[02:19.830]The ruling class tried desperately to gain the upper hand
[02:23.969]Faced with a society they didn't understand
[02:28.324]They just about got stuck beneath the historical weight
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[02:34.445]Fifty years ago in '68
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[02:41.074]Anyone in power now knows it might not last
[02:44.602]At least if they look back to the fairly recent past
[02:48.587]When the consent of the governed was for a time withdrawn
[02:53.048]When empires were challenged and some of them were gone
[02:57.195]When the movement was global and liberation was its freight
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[03:03.306]Fifty years ago in '68
[03:09.626]Fifty years ago in '68
[03:16.114]Fifty years ago in '68
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