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If simply I could say it and then see it done |
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I probably would've spoke it when I'd just begun |
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If life is just as awful as they say it is |
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How come everybody bargains when their time has come? |
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Every day I see it more and more |
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Children wondering, what is their existence for? |
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Innocence to animosity, intesified by poverty |
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They're caught up in their fathers wars |
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Evil is something taught, it's not innate |
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They plant the seeds in youth and then the children grow to hate |
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Kills others for the words, some ancients scribbled on a slate |
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and orphans of the war will never make it to see eight |
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and us, we're taught to look the other way |
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while children die by bullets that some other child made |
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and that's just another day... |
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we're more concerned with something that some starlet had to say |
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We trade comfort for the truth |
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cause it's just too damn unpleasant to investigate the root |
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Divided by imaginary lines |
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We kill the other side as if somehow they're maligned |
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We overlook the people in our streets |
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And look down on the one's who ask for help when they're in need |
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A homeless family dies and nobody even blinks |
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but god forbid you change the volume of our weapon's magazines |
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Me? I'm not a soldier for what it's worth |
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My only worth is in the order which I choose my words |
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Value the living over death |
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I'll speak for peace until they take my breath |
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I just want to save a life |
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Just the way, I was saved |
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I have finally found my light |
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And this will be my alchemy |
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A father hits a mother while the children watch |
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As he stumbles in the house after seven shots |
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Another bruise that's another lesson taught |
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All the while the children desperate to see the violence stop |
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The son grows up confused, exactly what's a woman's worth? |
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The one you choose to love is the one you love to hurt |
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The older daughter grows to know to never trust a man |
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While the younger one never understands |
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Fifteen and all alone, the siblings left the home |
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It's getting hard to cope, she thinks of letting go |
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Starts drinking like her father, hoping to escape |
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Has too many at a party a victim of a rape |
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And when she finally finds the courage to stand up to what's wrong |
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They have the nerve to scrutinize the clothes that she puts on |
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I will stand up to those that don't respect a woman's choice |
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I'll keep on speaking for those who don't have a voice |
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I just want to save a life |
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Just the way, I was saved |
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I have finally found my light |
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And this will be my alchemy |
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Why can't we all evolve and be something more? |
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And leave the world better than it was before |
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It's been two thousand years, we're not so simple minded |
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Our suits are different, I'm more concerned with what lies behind it |
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Love everyone, Love \"Love\" itself |
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Learn to value human life over human wealth |
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You can't fight for peace, it just compounds the problems |
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Only accepting this will any of us start to solve um |
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We are one people, under one sky |
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One destiny, confined to such a short time |
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This is a renaissance, it's not a revolution |
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Let our generation catalyze an evolution |
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I am no crusader let me make it clear |
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And my words will likely fall upon a deafened ear |
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But I'll keep speaking up for what I feel is right |
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In the hope someday that I can save a life |
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I just want to save a life |
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Just the way, I was saved |
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I have finally found my light |
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And this will be my alchemy |
