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| 5:10 | 
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As if I really didn't understand
That I was just another part of their plan I went off looking for the promise Believing in the Motherland And from the comfort of a dreamer's bed And the safety of my own head I went on speaking of the future While other people fought and bled The kid I was when I first left home Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet When the truth was known I have prayed for America I was made for America It's in my blood and in my bones By the dawn's early light By all I know is right We're going to reap what we have sown As if freedom was a question of might As if loyalty was black and white You hear people say it all the time- "My country wrong or right" I want to know what that's got to do With what it takes to find out what's true With everyone from the President on down Trying to keep it from you The thing I wonder about the Dads and Moms Who send their sons to the Vietnams Will they really think their way of life Has been protected as the next war comes? I have prayed for America I was made for America Her shining dream plays in my mind By the rockets red glare A generation's blank stare We better wake her up this time The kid I was when I first left home Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet When the truth was known I have prayed for America I was made for America I can't let go till she comes around Until the land of the free Is awake and can see And until her conscience has been found |
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| 2. |
| 4:34 |
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God is great, God is good
He guards your neighborhood Though it's generally understood Not quite the way you would You try to take the slack Stay awake and watch his back But something happens every now and then And someone breaks into the promised land Ah boy boy This world is not your toy This world is long on hunger This world is short on joy A-E-I-O You speak as if you know What's good for everyone What's good in what you've done? What's good about a world in which War rages at a fever pitch And people die for the little things A little corn, a little beans Ah boy boy This world is not your toy This world is, this world is Long on hunger Short on joy How much longer You gonna keep the world hungry boy? You measure peace with guns Progress in mega-tons Who's left when the war is won? Soldier of misfortune-- Soldier of an angry call Soldier on foreign soil I'm not here to fight your war I know what you're fighting for Ah boy boy This world is not your toy This world is, this world is Long on hunger Short on joy How much longer You gonna keep the world hungry boy? |
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| 3. |
| 5:41 |
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It was a ruby that she wore
On a chain around her neck In the shape of a heart In the shape of a heart It was a time I won't forget For the sorrow and regret And the shape of a heart And the shape of a heart I guess I never knew What she was talking about I guess I never knew What she was living without People speak of love don't know what they're thinking of Wait around for the one who fits just like a glove Speak in terms of belief and belonging Try to fit some name to their longing People speak of love There was a hole left in the wall From some ancient fight About the size of a fist Or something thrown that had missed And there were other holes as well In the house where our nights fell Far to many to repair In the time that we were there People speak of love don't know what they're thinking of Reach out to each other through the push and shove Speak in terms of a life and the learning Try to think of a word for the burning You keep it up You try so hard To keep a life from coming apart And never know What breaches and faults are concealed In the shape of a heart In the shape of a heart In the shape of a heart It was the ruby that she wore On a stand beside the bed In the hour before dawn When I knew she was gone And I held it in my hand For a little while Dropped it into the wall I let it go and heard it fall I guess I never knew What she was talking about I guess I never knew What she was living without People speak of love don't know what they're thinking of Wait around for the one who fits just like a glove Speak in terms of a life and the living Try to find the word for forgiving You keep it up You try so hard To keep a life from coming apart And never know The shallows and the unseen reef That are there from the start In the shape of a heart |
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| 4. |
| 4:11 |
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Daughter of a woman who comes and goes
Candy Daughter of a man she barely knows Candy All grown up about the things People know to do How to take a love and tear it in two No no no that isn't how it's gonna be For Candy She wants to be in love But she doesn't know why Candy You think she's a child Look at her now My my Candy Step by step this is her debut Looking for love that's made to stay true Step by step she' looking for more than I see Candy Candy You know what your love is worth It's a good thing baby Candy If you're looking for a real love It's a ghost town Candy Step by step this is her debut Looking for love that's made to stay true Step by step she' looking for more than I see Candy |
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| 5. |
| 5:38 |
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Papa hit him, Mama kissed him
Made him go to Catechism With the sisters in their black and white And all the time those city streets Were teaching him another kind of wisdom When to run and when to fight Up at the playground after school Listening to tales of the prison system And those lawless avenues Dawn on a half darkened street A child's footsteps repeat And something there turns them Down those lawless avenues Silent Joe went down so bad He was the strongest fighter the avenues had Stabbed in the chest--he went down swinging Someone from some other part of town No one even seen it coming down And you don't hear no church bells ringing And in the violent night the police light Sweeps across the lots and the yards Following those lawless avenues Down on a half darkened street Armies advance and retreat And struggle to take control From those lawless avenues Manuelito's sister Rosa Ran away with a surfer from Hermosa Manuelito, cuida a Rosa, Hay mira como estan las cosas! (Manuelito take care of Rosa --Look at how things are) But who could blame her after she saw Every boy die who could have gotten close to her Rosa es joven u solo quiere ver la belleza del mundo (Rosa is young and only wants To see the beauty of the world) Manuel said-- "You gotta fight for what you want in this life" Just before they shipped him overseas to 'Nam Otra guerra sin razon Otra guerra sin fin, sin honor (Another war without reason, Another war without end, without honor) And she was fighting to understand When they shipped Manuelito's body home All she heard was one more shot Echoing down lawless avenues Hoy amigo, tal igual como ayer, La lucha en el barrio no cambia Nuestros hijos son los que han de crecer Por ley de la calle, viviendo entre abrazos Y chingazos (Today my friend, just like yesterday, The struggle in the barrio doesn't change. Our children are the ones to grow up By the law of the street Living between hugs and blows) Down on a half darkened street Fathers' and sons' lives repeat And something there turns them Down those lawless avenues En el calor de la calle (In the heat of the street) Buscan valor en la calle (Looking for valor in the street) Hasta final de la calle (Till the end of the street) |
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| 6. |
| 4:14 |
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I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year With the blood in the ink of the headlines And the sound of the crowd in my ear You might ask what it takes to remember When you know that you've seen it before Where a government lies to a people And a country is drifting to war And there's a shadow on the faces Of the men who send the guns To the wars that are fought in places Where their business interest runs On the radio talk shows and the T.V. You hear one thing again and again How the U.S.A. stands for freedom And we come to the aid of a friend But who are the ones that we call our friends-- These governments killing their own? Or the people who finally can't take any more And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone There are lives in the balance There are people under fire There are children at the cannons And there is blood on the wire There's a shadow on the faces Of the men who fan the flames Of the wars that are fought in places Where we can't even say the names They sell us the President the same way They sell us our clothes and our cars They sell us every thing from youth to religion The same time they sell us our wars I want to know who the men in the shadows are I want to hear somebody asking them why They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are But they're never the ones to fight or to die And there are lives in the balance There are people under fire There are children at the cannons And there is blood on the wire |
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| 7. |
| 4:17 |
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Till I go down
Till I go down Till I go down I'm not gonna shut my eyes Till I go down I'm not gonna shut my eyes I've already seen the lies On the faces of the men of war Leading people to the killing floor Till I go down Till I go down Till I go down I'm not gonna shut my eyes No no Till I go down Till the world stops spinning around Till I'm six feet under the ground Till there's no sound Till there's no pain I'm gonna swing this chain Till I go down I'm not gonna shut my mouth I'm for the truth to come out About the leader with the iron will And his allegiance to the dollar bill Till I go down Till I go down Till I go down I'm not gonna shut my eyes Till I go down |
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| 8. |
| 5:11 |
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Long before you ever saw your chances
You were going to burn this city down Tired of the fashions and the dances Tired of the people standing around Ticking like a bomb in the night And you knew you were right Black and white Blame it on the time it took to leave here Blame it on the ones who slowed you down Blame it on the kind of friends you knew here Blame it on the sickness going 'round Going round and round in the night With your heart out of sight With your world burning bright Like a moth 'round a light Black and white The pictures of a life in flames Black and white The picture of a life remains And the search you half remember Setting out on at the start Is burning like an ember in your heart Time running out time running out For the fool still asking what his life is about Time running out time running out Time running out time running out Yeah, beyond a shadow of a doubt Time running out time running out Tell them that you've gone to find a person Someone you lost track of long ago Tell them that it's someone you need worse than Anybody else you'll ever know Ticking like a bomb in the night You were strong, you were light You were fast, you were bright Then you were gone in the light Black and white The pictures of a life in flames Black and white The picture of a life remains And the high ideals and the promise You once dressed the future in Are dancing in the embers with the wind Time running out time running out For the fool still asking what his life is about Time running out time running out Time running out time running out Yeah, beyond a shadow of a doubt Time running out time running out |
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