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First one was born then denied |
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Will anybody get her? |
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Second one is learning her all lines |
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And the actions |
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Third one has been trying all her life |
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To get out of the ghetto |
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Fourth one is leaving the fire |
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For the ashes, for the |
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Which fire is the fire that calls you out into the light |
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Indifference or spite? |
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First thing |
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I'm gonna do to this town |
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When I get a little credit |
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Take my money and stick it in the ground |
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Buy some glasses |
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Education prepares me for the fight |
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When they try to turn their words on me |
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Cities turned into a refuge for the ashes |
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For the ashes, for the |
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Which fire is the fire that turns you into a sharper eye? |
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Has anybody tried? |
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Someday I'm gonna wake up dead, |
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I knowMy breath released into the open sky |
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Please tighten that bandage round my head one last time |
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Let go of my hand and close my eyes |
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Time's coming, there's light under the door |
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Footsteps in the exterior hallway |
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Coming with a stethoscope, a syringe |
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Witness, I call you all my wealth, you're my lands |
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This little country of my own true blood |
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In this kingdom with no king, none at all |
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Or just a daughter and a son in law |
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Witness, can you write me down these words? |
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My darlings, take your time' |
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Cause all things will fall, all things must fall |
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Think I'm gonna just sit here for awhile |
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Gotta try to see what happened |
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But I'll still stand right up to your face |
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And 40 lashes |
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But I never would've worried and worked that hard |
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If they ever would have told me so |
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That I was just working all this time |
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For ashes, for the |
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What fool is on the fire escape when the fire is going out? |
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Is anybody's doubt |
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I know it seems like nothing changes in your way |
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Just take your time and know that all things will fall |
