If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past
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Security in human systems we're told will always always last
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Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast
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Without a breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast
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If God is dead and an actor plays his part
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His words of fear will find their way to a place in your heart
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Without the voice of reason every faith is its own curse
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Without freedom from the past things can only get worse
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Sooner or later just like the world first day
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Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away
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Sooner or later just like the world first day
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Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away
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Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away
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History will teach us nothing
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History will teach us nothing
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Our written history is a catalogue of crime
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The sordid and the powerful, the architects of time
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The mother of invention, the oppression of the mild
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The constant fear of scarcity, aggression as its child
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Sooner or later
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Sooner or later
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Sooner or later
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Sooner or later
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Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong
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Is to win a bloodless battle where victory is long
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A simple act of faith
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In reason over might
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To blow up his children will only prove him right
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History will teach us nothing
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Sooner or later the world first day
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Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away
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Sooner or later the world first day
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Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away
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Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away
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History will teach us nothing
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History will teach us nothing
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Know you human rights
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Be what you come here for
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Know your human rights
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Be what you come here for
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Know your human rights
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Be what you come here for
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Know your human rights
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Be what you come here for
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History Will Teach Us Nothing
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Sting |