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[Solo] |
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Who's world is this? To tell you the truth I'm not sure |
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Feeling more and more like we fighting for a lost cause |
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My jaw drops as I watch on the box |
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See the planes shot out of the sky and wonder what for |
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We can do better, now more than ever |
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Hear the cries out in Tahrir Square, we want more |
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But there's war going on across the seas |
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Blood flowing in the streets over power and greed |
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I guess it's just human nature tryna intervene |
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Gaza Strip, Auschwitz, Kosovo, Hiroshima |
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I picture these moments like 'what if it was me?' |
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But I'm home safe and sounds just watching it on the screen |
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Stuck between a horror movie and a Disney scene |
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Right and wrong and everything in between |
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So I write these songs my therapy's in these beats |
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When the mic is on my enemies see defeat, but |
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Time ticks on and everything will repeat |
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What a wise man once said to me |
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My reply was needless, still I kept gathering the pieces |
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To help me as I'm writing out my thesis |
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On the most curious of creatures, students and teachers |
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Sinners and preachers, tycoons and street sweepers |
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Engineers in hard hats, presidents and ministers |
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Made from the very same bone, flesh and ligaments |
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Crooks and thieves, in pursuit of some crooked beliefs |
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Who do some things that you wouldn't believe |
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Thought about it too long, what I wouldn't achieve |
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Now I rock-a-bye a baby tryna put em to sleep |
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I had a subway conversation with an angel who had killed a man |
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Explained to me that we're each part of a bigger plan |
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We sat and kicked it, he talked and I listened |
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Tryna soak up his wisdom in that instant |
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I understood this twisted system |
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We all so complicit in it |
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Just components in the same mechanism |
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Each taking turns playing out the rhythm |
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Don't know any different though we never gave permission |
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Ain't a lot on this rock I can call my own |
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But the space around my head is a no-fly zone |
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In this cold barren land that I call my home |
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A king amongst many's waiting on a throne |
