[Hook]
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This is more than an idea (sing it), oooh
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Show me all of who you are (sing it), oooh
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[Verse 1]
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A voice from the wilderness
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Detroit and Port-au-Prince
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Building the movement from the basic ingredients
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Immediate response, the reaction to the chemicals
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Screaming compassion from the tracks of the tennis shoes
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When academics trapped in academies
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Won't renew movement or produce strategies
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Opening the data stream
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That we teach me how to fill
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Built a resistance to opiates and imbeciles
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I hate to take a side
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I've got to take a side
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When it's time to take a side
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Stand up for what is right
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Or should I say left?
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Cause that's usually where I find myself
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Aligned for the future that we're trying for
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Slogan on my sign board
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Look across a line
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You're tired, you're scared, you're working overtime
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War fatigues, Christ Lord
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Another giant's born
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Midwifed by the phantoms that we're crying for
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[Hook]
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For (sing it), oooh
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[Verse 2]
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How the West is, how the West is
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Show 'em how the west is
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One for my dreams
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Two for my doubts
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Three for the people that've been left out
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Four for the love that can save us
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Five for the names on the grave, Troy Davis
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Six for the pain
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Seven for the patience
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Eight for the strains of the tough conversations
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Nine for the kids on the front lawn racing
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To ten, the joy that can never be taken
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For all the life we've forsaken
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Times I've mistaken
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The side that I've taken
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And the life that I'm makin'
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But in this demonstration's
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The time I lack patience
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[?] violence play favorites
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[?] and still didn't show up
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When justice hit the streets the definition didn't hold up
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Why we are divided, the reason that we're fighting
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What a human life, the meaning of [?]
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[Hook]
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I can't tell you where to go (sing it), oooh
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You are never on your own (sing it), oooh
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We'll live on when we are gone
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We'll be everywhere at once
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Sides
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