Living in the wasteland of the free...
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We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines
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and their speech is growing increasingly unkind
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They say they are Christ's disciples
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but they don't look like Jesus to me
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and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
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We got politicians running races on corporate cash
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Now don't tell me they don't turn around and kiss them peoples' ass
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You may call me old-fashioned
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but that don't fit my picture of a true democracy
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and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
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We got CEO's making two hundred times the workers' pay
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but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage
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and If you don't like it, mister, they'll ship your job
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to some third-world country 'cross the sea
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and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
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Living in the wasteland of the free
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where the poor have now become the enemy
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Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones
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Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy
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Living in the wasteland of the free
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We got little kids with guns fighting inner city wars
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So what do we do, we put these little kids behind prison doors
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and we call ourselves the advanced civilization
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that sounds like crap to me
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and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
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We got high-school kids running 'round in Calvin Klein and Guess
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who cannot pass a sixth-grade reading test
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but if you ask them, they can tell you
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the name of every crotch on mTV
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and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
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We kill for oil, then we throw a party when we win
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Some guy refuses to fight, and we call that the sin
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but he's standing up for what he believes in
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and that seems pretty damned American to me
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and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
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Living in the wasteland of the free
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where the poor have now become the enemy
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Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones
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Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy
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Living in the wasteland of the free
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While we sit gloating in our greatness
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justice is sinking to the bottom of the sea
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Living in the wasteland of the free
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Living in the wasteland of the free
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Living in the wasteland of the free
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Wasteland of the Free
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Iris Dement |