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| they caught the last poor man on a poor man's vacation they cuffed him and they confiscated his stuff and they dragged his black ass down to the station and said "ok the streets are safe now all your pretty white children can come out and see spot run" and they came out of their houses and they looked around but they didnt see no one and my country tis of thee to take swings at each other on talk show tv why don't you just go ahead and turn off the sun 'cuz we'll never live long enough to undo everything they've done to you undo everything they've done to you and above 96th street they're handing out smallpox blankets so people don't feeze the old dogs, they got a new trick its called criminalize the symptoms while you spread the disease i hold on hard to something between my teeth when i'm sleeping and i wake up and my jaw aches and the earth is full of earthquakes and my country tis of thee to take shots at each other on prime time tv why don't you jsut go ahead and turn off the sun cuz we'll never live long enough to undo everything they've done to you undo everything they've done to you they caught the last poor man flying away in a shinny red cape and they brought him down to the station and they said "boy you should know better than to try and escape" and i ran away with the circus cuz there's still some honest work left for bearded ladies but its not the same goin' town to town since they put everyone in jail cept the cleavers and the bradys and my country tis of thee to take swings at each other on talk show tv why don't you jsut go ahead and turn off the sun cuz we'll never live long enough to undo everything they've done to you undo everything they've done to you |
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