Mother, father please explain to me
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Why a world so full of mystery
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A place so bitter and still so sweet
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So beautiful and yet so full of sad, sad...
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Mother, father please explain to me
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Why forests march to desert speed
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While snowcapped mountains melt away
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What do we tell our babies, when do we say, oh
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Mother, father please explain to me
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How a man who rocks his child to sleep
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Pulls the trigger on his brother's heart
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He digs a hole right to the middle of this storm of hatred
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Mother, father please explain to me
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How it could be so this world has come to be
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A precious balance in between
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Such cruelty and such kindness please
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Mother, father please explain to me
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How this world has come to be
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Unequaled in her blessings, oh, I see
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Unbridled hatred so extreme, please tell me
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Mother, father please explain to me
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How this world has come to be so
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Twisted between time and dreams
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Oh, mother, father please explain to me
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Oh, what's all this talk about?
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All this talk about it
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Spinning down, down, down, down, down
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All this talk about
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Endless words without
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Nothing's done
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Mother, father do you know
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Why one man's belly overflows
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Another sleeps in hunger's bed
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Oh, we trade our world for a piece of bread
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Oh Mother, father please explain to me
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How this rare world's come to be
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A place so full of color yet overflowing
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Always in black and white
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Drowning in the waters of our...
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Mother, father please explain to me
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How this world has come to be
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While still blessed in all the things we see
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Such a sad, sad home for you and me
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Come out, and hold,
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Come on out you
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Come on out you
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Come and save yourself
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Come on out you
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Come on we're taking the water
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We're taken the water
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We're taken the water
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But you know
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We got the freedom
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We got the freedom
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There's no God above
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And no hell below
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Oh, it's here with us
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It's up to us
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To keep afloat
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How this sweet world has come to be
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Oh to keep afloat
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Mother, father please explain to me
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How this rare world has come to be
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Oh, let the blue planet
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Let the blue planet
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Mother, father please explain to me
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Mother, father please explain
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Mother, Father
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