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A Weary Exile

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Post the lyrics of a song that you found very moving and/or powerful, you can post videos (With lyrics preferably) if you'd like.

Mine would be:

"Time's light has reached your eye, a world has lived and died, but we're here." Neighborhood Spaceman-Peeping Tom

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

You're not human
You're a miracle
A preacher with an animal's face

In your sexy
Neon smokescreen
Lie the supersalesmen of vanity

Even your shadow worships you
In your jungle solitude

With the orgies of the sacrament
And the seal of flagellants

God saves those who save their skin
From the bondage that we're in

I'm elated
I could cut you
And remove the sheath of your ignorance

Bless the eunuch
And the Skoptsi
Will you hurt me now and make a million?

Say cheese, baby
We all love you
But it's a cheap world and you don't exist...

Slit the fabric of the right now
Spread your legs and wear the crown

Tell me how long, lord, how long?
Till I get my beauty sleep?

Now the hourglass is empty
The moment of my de-sexing

Cut it
Cut it
Cut this cancer from my soul

Now that I've made it...

I'm finally naked...
 

high_castle

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Ah, Bob Dylan. Yes, he's definitely a very deep songwriter. Since you've already mentioned Dylan, I'll just mention the Boss and his most misused song:

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just covering up

[chorus:]
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

I got in a little hometown jam
And so they put a rifle in my hands
Sent me off to Vietnam
To go and kill the yellow man

[chorus]

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
I go down to see the V.A. man
He said "Son don't you understand"

[chorus]

I had a buddy at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a little girl in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go

I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
 

Clashero

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Wow, I like the first one a lot.

I love this next song: Only An Ocean Away, by Sarah Brightman. It's a song about losing a very dear love, and about how simply being far away from someone isn't enough to break the bond. I'll let Sarah do the talking:

I see a shadow every day and night.
I walk a hundred streets of neon lights,
Only when I'm crying.
Can you hear me crying.
So many times you always wanted more,
Chasing illusions that you're longing for.
Wish I wasn't crying.
Can you hear me crying.

There's an ocean between us.
You know where to find me.
You reach out and touch me.
I feel you in my own heart.
More than a lifetime.
Still goes on forever.
But it helps to remember
You're only an ocean away.

Was there a moment when I felt no pain.
I want to feel it in my life again.
Let it be over now.
Oh Oh over now.
'Cause I remember all the days and nights
We used to walk the streets of neon lights
Oh I want you here with me.
Oh be here with me.

There's an ocean between us.
You know where to find me.
You reach out and touch me.
I feel you in my own heart.
More than a lifetime
Still goes on forever.
But it helps to remember
You're only an ocean away.

So many times you always wanted more,
Chasing illusions that you're longing for.
Wish I wasn't crying.
Can you hear me crying.

There's an ocean between us.
You know where to find me.
Just reach out and touch me.
I feel you in my own heart.
More than a lifetime
It seems like forever.
But I'll always remember
You're only an ocean away.

Only an ocean away.

 

Nightfalke

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Since we're on a Dylan kick...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvBkbPEoeAI

So now I'm goin' back again,
I got to get to her somehow.
All the people we used to know
They're an illusion to me now.
Some are mathematicians
Some are carpenter's wives.
Don't know how it all got started,
I don't know what they're doin' with their lives.
But me, I'm still on the road
Headin' for another joint
We always did feel the same,
We just saw it from a different point of view,
Tangled up in blue.
 

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I'll tell you a story, believe me it's true
a tale you'd best hope never happens to you old spicy mcHaggis,
how he met his fate you I can save, but for him it's too late

Spicy was big, burly and strong
his pipes were gigantic, and so was his schlong
from city to city running around
looking for chicks over four hundred pounds

One night at the pub a girl caught his eye big as a house,
just the right size the broad was enormous,
stacked to the hilt spicy soon noticed a bulge in his kilt
the piper delivered his best pick-up line thought to himself,
"this beast is all mine" the portly young lady could stand for no more
grabbed his cojones and went for the door

They got to her house and dimmed all the lights
Spicy was in for one hell of a night he said that he loved her,
he'd always be true "But Mr. McHaggis, I've only just met you!!"

By now he saw double through his drunken eyes
neither had looks or appropriate size he came to his sense,
thought to himself, "At this time of night I won't find nothing else" he took off his shirt,
she lifted her skirt, they pulled out his unit and stared to play she asked for a glove,
he gave her a shove, had baby McHaggis nine months to-the-day.

One night at the pub a girl caught his eye big as a house,
just the right size the broad was enormous,
stacked to the hilt spicy soon noticed a bulge in his kilt
the piper delivered his best pick-up line thought to himself,
"this beast is all mine" the portly young lady could stand for no more
grabbed his cojones and went for the door

Three packs a day, he'll smoke 'til he dies Spicy McHaggis, one hell of a guy!
 

A Weary Exile

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Here's another one.

Bold as Love-Jimi Hendrix

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGqPzrNypzw[/video]

Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armour
Queen jealousy, envy waits behind him
Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground

Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted,
They quietly understand
Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready,
But wonder why the fight is on

But theyre all bold as love, yes, theyre all bold as love
Yeah, theyre all bold as love
Just ask the axis

My red is so confident that he flashes trophies of war and
Ribbons of euphoria
Orange is young, full of daring,
But very unsteady for the first go round
My yellow in this case is not so mellow
In fact Im trying to say its frigthened like me
And all these emotions of mine keep holding me from, eh,
Giving my life to a rainbow like you
But, Im eh , yeah, Im bold as love
Yeah, yeah
Well Im bold, bold as love (hear me talking, girl)
Im bold as love
Just ask the axis (he knows everything)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
 

high_castle

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wouldyoukindly99 said:
high_castle said:
Wow, thanks for resurrecting my post. I thought for sure it had moved on to the pages-of-no-return.
*shrug* I look for topics I can comment intelligently on. And I think this was only down a few pages. And I have another song. This one was also recently misused, by that awful Twilight movie of all things

[spoiler="Flightless Bird, American Mouth" by Iron & Wine]
I was a quick wet boy, diving too deep for coins
All of your street light eyes wide on my plastic toys
Then when the cops closed the fair, I cut my long baby hair
Stole me a dog-eared map and called for you everywhere

Have I found you
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping or lost you, american mouth
Big pill looming

Now I'm a fat house cat
Nursing my sore blunt tongue
Watching the warm poison rats curl through the wide fence cracks
Pissing on magazine photos
Those fishing lures thrown in the cold
And clean blood of Christ mountain stream

Have I found you
Flightless bird, grounded, bleeding or lost you, american mouth
Big pill stuck going down
[/spoiler]
 

skywalkerlion

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Let the rain fall down, let it fall to the ground
Let the rain fall down to the ground.
And the birds don't sing, no they don't make a sound,
When you're six feet underground.

Well they cast me out when the word spread around
That I never sang in the church.
And it took one night for the town to decide
I'm afflicted by the curse.

And the rain falls down, let it fall to the ground.
And the birds don't sing, no they don't make a sound.
So I look to the sky, tell me why, tell me why,
Do they all get to live, and I have to die?

So they marched me down to the center of town,
With their pitchforks high in the air.
I was chained and bound with a blindfold around
So the judge wouldn't catch my stare.
And they hung my soul from the gallows pole
But the witch they never found.
So to those who don't fit society's mold,
Learn to swim or you will drown.

And the rain falls down, let it fall to the ground.
And the birds don't sing, no they don't make a sound.
So I look to the sky, tell me why, tell me why,
Do they all get to live, and I have to die?

And the angels sing: let it shine, let it shine,
Dry the teardrops from my eyes.
And the bells will ring when the blind lead the blind,
'Cause the dead can't testify.
And because I can't take an eye for an eye,
In the afterlife I'll haunt you 'till you die!

And the rain falls down, let it fall to the ground.
(Let teardrops hit the ground!)
And the birds don't sing, no they don't make a sound.
(When you're six feet underground!)
So I look to the sky, tell me why, tell me why,
Do they all get to live, and I have to die?

And the angels sing: let it shine, let it shine,
Dry the teardrops from my eyes.
And the bells will ring when the blind lead the blind,
'Cause the dead can't testify.
And because I can't take an eye for an eye,
In the afterlife I'll haunt you 'till you die!

And the angels sing: let it shine, let it shine,
Dry the teardrops from my eyes.
And the bells will ring when the blind lead the blind,
'Cause the dead can't testify.
And because I can't take an eye for an eye,
In the afterlife I'll haunt you 'till you die!

Huh. I actually kinda liked it, which is weird cause I normally hate emo music XD.

I like how the lyrics just seem to flow, and it tells somewhat of a progressive story.

FOR MEH:

Ground control to major tom
Ground control to major tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

Ground control to major tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may gods love be with you

Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five,
Four, three, two, one, liftoff

This is ground control to major tom
Youve really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now its time to leave the capsule if you dare

This is major tom to ground control
Im stepping through the door
And Im floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet earth is blue
And theres nothing I can do

Though Im past one hundred thousand miles
Im feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell me wife I love her very much she knows

Ground control to major tom
Your circuits dead, theres something wrong
Can you hear me, major tom?
Can you hear me, major tom?
Can you hear me, major tom?
Can you....

Here am I floating round my tin can
Far above the moon
Planet earth is blue
And theres nothing I can do.

That's about an astronaut (which turns out to be a guy on drugs..) who's lost in space, basically..kinda deep, I guess.

More deep than that is Ashes to Ashes, which also features Major Tom..
Do you remember a guy thats been
In such an early song
Ive heard a rumour from ground control
Oh no, dont say its true

They got a message from the action man
Im happy, hope youre happy too
Ive loved all Ive needed love
Sordid details following

The shrieking of nothing is killing
Just pictures of jap girls in synthesis and i
Aint got no money and I aint got no hair
But Im hoping to kick but the planet its glowing

Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know major toms a junkie
Strung out in heavens high
Hitting an all-time low

Time and again I tell myself
Ill stay clean tonight
But the little green wheels are following me
Oh no, not again
Im stuck with a valuable friend
Im happy, hope youre happy too
One flash of light but no smoking pistol

I never done good things
I never done bad things
I never did anything out of the blue, woh-o-oh
Want an axe to break the ice
Wanna come down right now

Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know major toms a junkie
Strung out in heavens high
Hitting an all-time low

My mother said to get things done
Youd better not mess with major tom
My mother said to get things done
Youd better not mess with major tom
My mother said to get things done
Youd better not mess with major tom
My mother said to get things done
Youd better not mess with major tom

Don't Fear the Reaper is also pretty meaningful, it basically means there's no sense in fearing death if we all have to die sometime.
 

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wouldyoukindly99 said:
Post the lyrics of a song that you found very moving and/or powerful, you can post videos (With lyrics preferably) if you'd like.

Mine would be:

"Time's light has reached your eye, a world has lived and died, but we're here." Neighborhood Spaceman-Peeping Tom

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

You're not human
You're a miracle
A preacher with an animal's face

In your sexy
Neon smokescreen
Lie the supersalesmen of vanity

Even your shadow worships you
In your jungle solitude

With the orgies of the sacrament
And the seal of flagellants

God saves those who save their skin
From the bondage that we're in

I'm elated
I could cut you
And remove the sheath of your ignorance

Bless the eunuch
And the Skoptsi
Will you hurt me now and make a million?

Say cheese, baby
We all love you
But it's a cheap world and you don't exist...

Slit the fabric of the right now
Spread your legs and wear the crown

Tell me how long, lord, how long?
Till I get my beauty sleep?

Now the hourglass is empty
The moment of my de-sexing

Cut it
Cut it
Cut this cancer from my soul

Now that I've made it...

I'm finally naked...
This is a pretty meaningful song.No particular lyrics.Just the song in it's entirety is quite haunting

 

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I know lots of good songs, so I'll just pick two off the top of my head.<youtube=4n3LobCY5HE><spoiler=Kamelot-Human Stain Lyrics>[See the cemetery sky
Carmine red and deep
Watch the oceans rising high
It?s the human stain]

Talk about the growing hunger
Ask why with deep concern
Don?t you think
the human race is ceaselessly vain

But it hurts to be alive, my friend
In this silent tide we're driftwood passing by
Don?t you wish you were a child again
Just for a minute
just for a minute more

Hear the ticking of a clock
The sound of life itself
No one really wants to die
To save the world

Tell me that you're torn asunder
From how we fail to learn
And tell me
as the earth goes under
Where?s your anger now

So it hurts to be alive, my friend
In this masquerade where all one day must die
Don?t you wish you were unborn again
Just for a minute
just for a minute more

Tic toc
The ticking that could tear asunder
The beating from a heart of stone
The lust of your divine prosperity

'Cause it costs to be alive, my friend
And this life that someone merely gave to you
That's the price you pay
Minute by minute
You beg for a minute more
The main thing I like about this one^, is how it's essentially saying fuck you to all of the whiny/angsty bands and teens out there.
<youtube=igMaEw3SJuk><spoiler=Bob Dylan-Jokerman Lyrics>tanding on the waters casting your bread
While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing.
Distant ships sailing into the mist,
You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.
Freedom just around the corner for you
But with the truth so far off, what good will it do?

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune,
Bird fly high by the light of the moon,
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman.

So swiftly the sun sets in the sky,
You rise up and say goodbye to no one.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread,
Both of their futures, so full of dread, you don't show one.
Shedding off one more layer of skin,
Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune,
Bird fly high by the light of the moon,
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman.

You're a man of the mountains, you can walk on the clouds,
Manipulator of crowds, you're a dream twister.
You're going to Sodom and Gomorrah
But what do you care? Ain't nobody there would want to marry your sister.
Friend to the martyr, a friend to the woman of shame,
You look into the fiery furnace, see the rich man without any name.

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune,
Bird fly high by the light of the moon,
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman.

Well, the Book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy,
The law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.
In the smoke of the twilight on a milk-white steed,
Michelangelo indeed could've carved out your features.
Resting in the fields, far from the turbulent space,
Half asleep near the stars with a small dog licking your face.

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune,
Bird fly high by the light of the moon,
Oh. oh. oh. Jokerman.

Well, the rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame,
Preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.
Nightsticks and water cannons, tear gas, padlocks,
Molotov cocktails and rocks behind every curtain,
False-hearted judges dying in the webs that they spin,
Only a matter of time 'til night comes steppin' in.

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune,
Bird fly high by the light of the moon,
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman.

It's a shadowy world, skies are slippery gray,
A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet.
He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat,
Take the motherless children off the street
And place them at the feet of a harlot.
Oh, Jokerman, you know what he wants,
Oh, Jokerman, you don't show any response.

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune,
Bird fly high by the light of the moon,
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman.
 

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I quite like "It's Okay To Think About Edings" by Earlimart

It's ok to think about ending
and it's ok to not even start
put it away and wait till tomorrow
put it away and take care of your heart
of your whore heart

And it's ok to stay here forever
and it's ok to read in the dark
put it away and wait till tomorrow
put it away and take care of your heart
of your whore heart

Just for awhile
i'll sing and smile
just for awhile
i'll sing and smile

It's not that many lyrics but the chords used at the time and the way they are used make the lyrics so beautiful
 

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I'm, but a little bit bit bit, show!
but a little bit bit bit, shame!
but a little bit, bit, bit
Bit! bit! bit!
[2x]

I'm just the man in the back!
Just the man in the back!
Just the back!

I'm just demeaning the pack!
Just demeaning the pack!
Just demeaning the pack!

War!
Fuck the system!
War!
Fuck the system!
Fuck the system!!
War!
Fuck the system!
War!
I need to fuck the Sys.
I need to fuck the Sys..
I need to fuck the Sys...

I'm, but a little bit bit bit, show!
but a little bit bit bit, shame!
but a little bit, bit, bit
Bit! bit! bit!
[2x]

I'm just demeaning the pack!
Just demeaning the pack!
Just demeaning the pack!

I'm just the man in the back!
Just the man in the back!
Just the back!

Whore!
Fuck the system!
Whore!
Fuck the system!
Fuck the system!!
Whore!
Fuck the system!
Whore!

I need to fuck the Sys.
I need to fuck the Sys..
I need to fuck the Sys..

You need to fuck the sys.
You need to fuck the sys..
You need to fuck the sys...
We all need to fuck the sys....

I'm, but a little bit bit bit, show!
but a little bit bit bit, shame!
but a little bit, bit, bit
Bit! bit! bit!

I need to fuck the system!!
I need to fuck the sys!
I need to fuck the system!!
We all need to fuck the system!!!

Such a sick site brainwashed millions
Minions following their leader eating
Up its propaganda Terrified of not
Having their answer in a world
Where people are so blind These
Greedy fucks control their minds
Inbreeding ideals for the weak
I wont follow blindly your faith wont
Bring you shit The cold reality is that
We are born to die no one has
The fucking answers past this life
All the lies that you hold so sacred to
Be truth Are nothing more than a plot
To control you Religion enslaves the
Minds of Those to weak to think
For themselves Sedated with their god
The price that you pay is the life that
You wasted Living up to their standards
Blatant hypocrisy Your answer for
Tragedy Your life is a mockery
If you are scared to think Of living a
Bullshit free life of non conformity
Then Bow to the Deity
Gods are mans worst creation

If words are lethal weapons you've run out of ammo
its the same old fucking same old
you need to calibrate to a new debate
the era of the police state
take a stand against the man
force fed lies down through your throat
until you choke on those words that you greedily spoke
a generation of blinded men
following every trend
their ignorance is beyond my own comprehension
the pressure wont stop chaotic tension
what are you living for if you cant speak your mind
don't be the one left behind
the decaying waste of mankind
two eyes you're still fucking blind
GET FUCKED
use your voice you have the choice
neutral will be the first to die, asking why
corrupt leaders of the masses
separating them into classes
rich or poor we all want more
if talk is cheap then the voiceless are cheap whores
sacrifice!
refuse to use all force-fed lies
once a mindless slave
but buried fear into the grave
reload your words
don't follow the herd
a call to action we will be heard
a rock through every fuckers window
I rise like a crescendo
apathy has a placebo affect
I'll disconnect your head from your neck
you don't use it you fucking piece of shit
you make me fucking sick!
 

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riskroWe said:
How did I forget Elanor Rigby?

Another one: Get up Punk-General Patton vs. The Executioners, it's supposed to be a sort of parody of rap music but it is still a great song. The video is stupid but the song is solid with some interesting lyrics. Just goes to show that Mike Patton can do any genre of music, even rap, and do it well.

Tell me what would you do
If no one was here but you
If you could swallow your destiny


And what would you say
If everyone was away
If nobody was listening


You can analyze me
Your words can't pacify me
Get up punk, get up punk
And show you can


You can analyze me
Your words won't pacify me
Get up punk, get up punk
And show you can


And show you can
Show you can
And show you can


And show you can
Show you can
And show you can


And how would you be feeling
Without the cameras on the ceiling
And would this be happening


I know exactly what I'd do
If I were in your shoes
I think I'd tell me everything


You can analyze me
Your words can't pacify me
Get up punk, get up punk
And show you can


You can energize me
Your words electrify me
Get up punk, get up punk
And show you can


And show you can
Show you can
And show you can


And show you can
Show you can
And show you can


You can analyze me
Your words can't pacify me
Get up punk, get up punk
And show you can


You can analyze me
Your words won't pacify me
Get up punk, get up punk
And show you can


And show you can
Show you can
And show you can


And show you can
And show you can
And show you can

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