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Do you hear the people sing
Singing the song of angry men
It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again
When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes
Will your join in our crusade who will be strong and stand wtih me
Beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see
Then join in the fight that will give you the right to be free
Do you hear the people sing
Singing the song of angry men
It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again
When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes
Les Miserables - Do You Hear the People Sing

Right now I feel like a bird
Caged without a key
Everyone comes to stare at me
So much joy in reverie

They don't know how I feel inside
Through my smile I cry
They don't know what they're doing to me
Keeping me from flying
That's why I say that
I know why the caged bird sings
All the joy comes from song
She's so rare and beautiful to others
Why not just set her free?
So she can fly
Spread her wings and her song
Let her fly
For the whole world to see.
Alecia Keys - Caged Bird

The water for your garden is yards away from your hands
But the pesticide is so much closer so you poison all your plants
The ointment for your wounds is right next to your hands
But the salt is so much closer and you don't wanna stand

{Chorus}
Cause you've never seen an angel
And you've never seen your light
But guardians and bulbs are there
But you prefer your darkened plight

There's always stairway that goes up
for every stairway going down
But it's oh so hard to walk up stairs
so down them you're intentionally bound

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So use your ointment water your plants and
walk up all those stairs
It is so hard but you will see the effort
was worth it once you're there
With watered gardens the view is so great
like heaven to your eyes
And when you're standing atop the world
it'll give you the butterflies

The glass it shimmers against the smoke and the fire slowly toils away
And everything is gone for now but I have to smile as she would say:
"Regardless of what happens here you have to keep on living
Because the world will turn without me here and won't stop because I'm missing."
And the cycle will continue on and how many more have to die tonight?
The missiles launch and will not staunch for anything to fight
Yes the world will turn and the land will burn because death is all that matters
Our sons will jump into anything blind and I wonder will they scatter?

Men with no philosophy find themselves in conformity
But would a philosopher ever start a war? No he'd be too busy.

The men in uniform came to town and blandly took so many lives
They've never seen these faces before but the manipulation's enough to drive
Drive them forward into darkness to a feeding frenzy of hatred
To kill and maim to make their fame and to destroy all that's sacred

I try to breathe
Memories overtaking me
I try to face them but
The thought is too much to conceive

I only know that I can change
Everything else just stays the same
So now I step out of the darkness that my life became cause

I just needed someone to talk to
You were just to busy with yourself
You were never there for me
To express how I felt
I just stuffed it down
Now I'm older and I feel like
I could let some of this anger fade
But it seems the surface I am scratching
Is the bed that I have made

So where were you?
When all this I was going through
You never took the time
To ask me just what you could do

I never meand to fade awat
I never meant to fade

There is a castle o cloud
I like to go there in my sleep
Aren't any floors for me to sweep
Not in my castle on a cloud

There is a room that's full of toys
There are a hundred boys and girls
Nobody shouts or talks too loud
Not in my castle on a cloud

There is a lady all in white
Holds me and sings a lullabye
She's nice to see and she's soft to touch
She says, Cossette, I love you very much

I know a place where no one's lost
I know a place where no one cries
Crying at all is not allowed
Not in my castle on a cloud
Les Miserables - Castle on a Cloud

Baby Jules died on her umbilical noose
Twelve-year-old Ken's going out to drink some booze
Old lady Jenkins doesn't know if her son's coming home
And he doesn't then she'll be living all alone

Sometimes I think there's something wrong here
And I wish I didn't belong here

I'm all dressed up tonight, but I don't have any friends to go out with

Suzy slit both of her wrists and killed the baby inside
She was so lost in the world and had no place to hide
Pops threw her brother out because he came out
After so many years of being self-denied

Blink and you miss a beat.
Keep one of your eyes open at all times
Think that you're on the brink?
The shit hasn't even beun to hit the fan.
Consequence you'll see will be stranger than
A gang of drunken mimes.
Situation has a stink.
Better clear the air before your son becomes a man.
Blink. Everything's been augmented,
You've been left so far behind.
Think, for sure, next time you should wear
A pair of eyes in the back of your head.
Consequence you've seen has been
Stranger than sci-fi of any kind.
Situation baffles me. I guess it's true
You too are one of the walking dead.
You better think fast!'Cause you
Never know what's comin' aroun the bend.
You better not blink! For
Consequence is a bigger word than you think.
It's bigger than you or me.
Incubus - Consequence

To resist is to piss in the wind.
Anyone who does will end up smelling.
Knowing this, why do I defy?
Because my inner soul is yelling.
There is a fist pressing against
Anyone who thinks something compelling.
Our intuit we're taught to deny,
And our soul we're told is for selling.
Get our from under them
Resist and multiply!
Get out from under precipice
And see the sky!
Get our from under them
Resist, unlearn, defy!
Get our from under precipice
And see the sky!
Incubus - Out from Under