Another rainy morning mingling at the market
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Bartering for food for another day
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Rifle shots ring out behind the crumbling buildings
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Executions have begun
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Sprawled in the square are today's broken bodies
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Lots to pick clean if you're first and quick
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Rift through their pockets, peel off their clothes
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To wear or sell when you wash out the blood
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Run my little brother
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Run to the chicken farm
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Opportunity is calling
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You might even find a watch
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We're going down
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To the chicken farm
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Napalm rains no more
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But the war goes on
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Little brother died playing at the dump today
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He found a new toy and held it up proud
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Then it blew him to bits
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How many more children
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Will be killed or die at birth
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Deformed by Agent Orange
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In our food chain forever more
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We're going down
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To the chicken farm
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This time we'll buy our way out
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I've got a plan; you wait and see
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I smuggled you this map
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In the gash I sliced in my thigh
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I hope I'm there to join you, love
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We're blown to bits one by one in this camp
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We crawl shaking through the fields at gunpoint all day
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To defuse leftover landmines-by hand
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We shiver on the deck and stiffen for the worst
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If the pirates come around we might as well be dead
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We'll be thrown in the sea
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Or butchered if we're women
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All in the name of gold
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One foot in a land we can barely understand
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Can't speak the tongue of Yankee hospitality
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Our kids at school get beat up
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To the tune of "Boat people, go home"
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Sliced with a machete
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From the breast of our homeland
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Our new world tries to spit us out
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But it sure beats the chicken farm
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Chicken Farm
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| Dead Kennedys |