You can see it on the Tv - or in a magazine
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And you can read it in the headlines - it's bloody Hallowe'en
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Behind the politics of freedom and burning gasoline
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If we keep drivin' on this freeway , it's goodnight, Josephine
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Eyes ablaze with virtue- they raise the sword of state
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But still I see no compromise - iIt's our heart upon the slate
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We're driven to the ledges just one step to the wire
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We're under siege, it's face to face - one spark can start a fire
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Street war - they're burning in the ghetto
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Street war - there's writing on the wall
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Street war - you can't paint over anger
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Street war - the rock's about to fall
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You can dial up a murder - you're watchin' 911
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Or you can tune into a psychic force, the mystery has just begun
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And if you wanna see the kids at school- you'd better take a gun
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There'll be a curfew in the dead of night until we see the risin' sun
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Crazy-eyed fanatics, militia man invades
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Inspired by insanity, to storm the barricades
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Where diamonds buy election, the soul of freedom bleeds
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for the martyr and the madman, it's the flame on which it feeds
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Street war - we're blinded by ambition
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Street war - we turn the other cheek
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Street war - the guilty stand convicted
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Street war - by every word they speak
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Street war - it's trial by oppression
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Street war - we're strung out on a plate
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Street war - for every dream you vaporize
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Street war - you sow the seeds of hate
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Street War
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| Emerson, Lake & Palmer |
