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Janis Ian |
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breaking silence |
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Guess you had to be there |
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Back in nineteen-sixty-three |
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we walked a fine line |
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We were taking to the streets |
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skating on a thin dime |
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We were searching after truth and beauty |
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Now they turn it into late night movies |
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How can I explain |
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that it's not the same? |
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Guess you had to be there to be where |
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love belonged to everyone |
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Flowers in the long hair, we stood there singing "We Shall Overcome" |
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Knowing the eyes of the world were on us |
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Knowing the whole world cared |
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Guess you had to be there |
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In the summer of our youth |
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we came together |
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and we knew that our truth |
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it would live forever |
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We were gonna make the whole world honest |
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when a bullet got the bravest of us |
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Somehow nothing else was sacred |
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and we all stood naked |
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chorus |
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Now we listen to the news |
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and it seems all hope is gone |
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Everybody feeling used |
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and there's nowhere left to run |
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Sometimes it seems like the memory |
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is all that's left of our used-to-be |
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but what can never be denied |
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is the way we changed inside |
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chorus |