Don't want to live in a prison cell
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don't want to live in a smoking room,
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independence just won't come to you
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in the brief of a diplomat.
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Say your prayers for the future
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say your prayers for the past,
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it might be round the corner
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it might be all we have.
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Say your Prayers.
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Don't want to live with a compromise
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don't want to live with hypocrisy,
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bureaucracy doesn't have to win
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breaks the cage of the beast within.
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Say your prayers in the boardroom
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say your prayers on the stairs,
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it might be catastrophic
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it might be too damn bad.
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Say your prayers.
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I got the cure for compassion fatigue
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spend a week with the Timorese,
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running scared from the military
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you can share you can share your disease.
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Now we don't live with an absent master
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we don't live on an island divided,
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don't want my kids to grow up in shame
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in a country with a different name
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had to throw them out, had to break the chains.
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I got the cure for compassion fatigue
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spend a week with the Timorese,
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running scared from the military
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I come to you with a plaintive plea.
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Say Your Prayers
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| Midnight Oil |
