Do you think I was born on this wretched earth for you to govern and kill?
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In your stinking factories and offices with your stupid systems and skills.
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Do you think I've got nothing better to do than to grovel in the shit and the crap,
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Asking for the bread and home that's mine and waiting for a pat on the back?
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You think I've got nothing better to do than to live in the lie that you give?
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Learn the sweet morals, the lessons, the games and praise god for the fact that I live?
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You took me and made me a MAN
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By making me strong, the power of this land.
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You took a woman and taught her she's less,
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A slave to the strong no more than a guest.
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You taught me to love, find a mate and to take
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A woman to serve but your love is just rape.
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You leave me my children to hold and distort,
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To bind with your rules of normality till caught.
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I give them the food that you sell in the shops,
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I'm told is has goodness when it's only the slops.
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You've taken my health with your shitty benevolence,
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You've take my dignity with your dole queue dependence.
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You taught me to steal when I wanted to share,
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To take for myself and not even care.
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You've stifled my vision with oppressive authority,
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The dreams and the hopes nearly fade to strangle me.
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You gave me confusion until I had learnt
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To obey all the orders and never get burnt.
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I shout in the streets and you take my voice,
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This sham of democracy leaves no choice.
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You've taken my eyes till there's nothing to see
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Except abuse and destruction, no chance to be free.
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You've taken my thinking, my means of survival,
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Thrust in my hand your gun and your bible.
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You told me to kill for the lord up above,
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You've given me hate when I KNOW THERE IS LOVE.
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You told me to kill for the lord up above,
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You've given me hate when I KNOW THERE IS LOVE.
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I Know There Is Love
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