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It was a time I'll always remember |
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Because I could never forget |
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How reality fell down around us |
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Like some Western movie set |
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And once the dust all settled |
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The sun shone so bright |
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And a great calm took over us |
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Like it was all gonna be alright |
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That's how it felt to be alive |
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After the revolution |
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From Groton to Tacoma |
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On many a factory floor |
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The workers talked of solidarity |
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And refused to build weapons of war |
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No more will we make missiles |
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We're gonna do something different |
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And for the first time |
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Their children were proud of their parents |
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And somewhere in Gaza a little boy smiled and cried |
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After the revolution |
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Prison doors swung open |
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And mothers hugged their sons |
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The Liberty Bell was ringing |
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When the cops put down their guns |
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A million innocent people |
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Lit up in the springtime air |
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And Mumia and Leonard and Sarah Jane Olson |
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Took a walk in Tompkins Square |
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And they talked about what they'd do now |
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After the revolution |
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The debts were all forgiven |
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In all the neo-colonies |
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And the soldiers left their bases |
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Went back to their families |
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And a non-aggression treaty |
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Was signed with every sovereign state |
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And all the terrorist groups disbanded |
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With no empire left to hate |
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And they all started planting olive trees |
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After the revolution |
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George Bush and Henry Kissinger |
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Were sent off to the World Court |
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Their plans for global domination |
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Were pre-emptively cut short |
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Their weapons of mass destruction |
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Were inspected and destroyed |
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The battleships were dismantled |
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Never again to be deployed |
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And the world breathed a sigh of relief |
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After the revolution |
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Solar panels were on the rooftops |
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Trains upon the tracks |
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Organic food was in the markets |
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No GMO's upon the racks |
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And all the billionaires |
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Had to learn how to share |
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And Bill Gates was told to quit his whining |
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When he said it wasn't fair |
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And his mansion became a collective farm |
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After the revolution |
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And all the political poets |
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Couldn't think of what to say |
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So they all decided |
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To live life for today |
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I spent a few years catching up |
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With all my friends and lovers |
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Sleeping til eleven |
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Home beneath the covers |
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And I learned how to play the banjo |
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After the revolution |
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