We heard the fireworks
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Rushed out to watch the sky,
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Happy go lucky, 4th of July
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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How can you live in the South?
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How can you live on the banks of a river
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When the floodwater pours from the mouth?
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How can you be a Christian?
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How can you be a Jew?
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How can you be a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Hindu?
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How can you?
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Weak as the winter sun, we enter life on earth.
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Names and religion comes just after date of birth.
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And everybody gets a tongue to speak,
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And everyone hears an inner voice,
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A day at the end of the week to wonder and rejoice.
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If the answer is infinite light, why do we sleep in the dark?
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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How can you live in the South?
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How can you live on the banks of a river?
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When the floodwater pours from the mouth?
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How can you tap your body?
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Why do you cover your hand?
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How can you eat from a rice bowl
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When the holy man breaks bread?
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We watched the fireworks till they were fireflies.
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Followed a path of stars over the endless skies.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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How can you live in the South?
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How can you build on the banks of a river
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When the floodwater pours from the mouth, from the mouth?
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I've been given all I wanted,
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Only three generations off the boat.
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I've harvested and I've planted.
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I'm wearing my father's old coat.
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How Can You Live In The Northeast
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| Paul Simon |
