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Speak upon an issue strain your brain tissue
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But you don't raise your voice 'cause you're afraid someone will diss
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you
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Words are needing saying so you'd better say them quick
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'Cause second lady Tipper's gonna zip a fucking lip
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And what are you going to do when Uncle Scam has got your tongue tied
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I don't waste a word 'cause I know well that more than one died
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To get across the thought the point the words we take for granted
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But you live in the U.S. Tianamen Square's another planet
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Injustice anywhere threatens my security
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'Cause I'm no shining example of a racial purity
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Mr. David Duke is not a fluke or threat or promise
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He's a mighty voting block to keep the real humans honest
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You've got to get up stand up be conscious every day
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Cast your vote in the ballots plus the dollars that you pay
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If St. Ids's supplies the sorrow then it's time to get wise
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Cast out the bottle open your eyes and rise
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Rise
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From the center of my being I'm seeing a growing movement
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In my youth I was seeking truth where as now a social improvement
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Generation X has got to flex on politicians
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When they're on a power mission and money makes their decisions
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Hypocrisy has got to be the root of this democracy
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It'd mean a lot to me to see a Mabon lobotomy
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All discrimination contradicts our father's nation
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Give us your sick and tired and hungry unless they're sick and tired
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and Haitian
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Because we hate them foreigners and imports but then again
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We never seemed too fond of our own Native Americans
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Ethnic cleansing we say is something we're against
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But it's called domestic policy on this side of the fence
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We're willing to step in and get in and push Iraqis off of you
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It's just too bad they've got no oil out in Bosnia
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We're willing to make a move but it depends on who's attacking you
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'Cause damn we still have a lot of money tied up in South Africa
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I'd look in the paper but I can't see through all the smoke
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Everyone's complaining but not registered to vote
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It takes a lot of effort in the nineties to survive
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Give it up for revolution if you can't compromise
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Rise
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Come down all youth when me say open your eyes
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Lick a shot if you know you must rise
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Come down all youth when me say open your eyes
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Give it up for revolution if you can't compromise
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Come down all youth when me say open your eyes
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Lick a shot if you know you must rise
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Come down all youth when me say open your eyes
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Rise
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