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have you been to the desert?
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have you walked with the dead?
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there's a hundred thousand children being killed for their bread
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and the figures don't lie they speak of human disease
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but we do what we want and we think what we please
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have you lived the experience?
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have you witnessed the plague?
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people making babies sometimes just to escape
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in this land of competition the compassion is gone
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yet we ignore the needy and we keep pushing on
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we keep pushing on
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this is just a punk rock song
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written for the people who can see something's wrong
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like ants in a colony we do our share
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but there's so many other fuckin' insects out there
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and this is just a punk rock song
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(like workers in a factory we do our share
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but there's so many other fuckin' robots out there)
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have you visited the quagmire?
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have you swam in the shit?
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the party conventions and the real politik
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the faces always different, the rhetoric the same
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but we swallow it, and we see nothing change
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nothing has changed...
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ten million dollars on a losing campaign
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twenty million starving and writhing in pain
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big strong people unwilling to give
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small in vision and perspective
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one in five kids below the poverty line
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one population runnin' out of time
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