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Edmund Prettus Bridge
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Good Riddance
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The richest 1% of this country owns half our country's wealth: 5 trillion dollars. You got 90% of the American public out there with little or no net worth. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you, Buddy? We saw ourselves with greater dreams And learned we could not overcome our disease Skies for spacious obsequious From cradle to grave they deliver to us And rip our hearts from our chest Let's talk about hope We need a little sympathy I think about my country Through the lens of history Let's talk about privilege Impeding resolution And one billion hearts entwined in revolution But there's no substance No exceptional design to see it through Crusade against such ignorance Like moths to a flame without hope or defense Intemperate discord shepherds no reward A traitorous few left to fall on their swords And fight until their dying breath Let's talk about hope We need a little sympathy I think about my country Through the lens of history Let's talk about privilege Impeding resolution And one billion hearts entwined in revolution But there's no substance No exceptional design to see it through No deeper threat no higher cause No greater pretext to renunciate the letter of the law I'm every woman I'm every man And I'm every non binary hominid in this free and open land See us catch fire not for the faint Hearts disconnected we cannot wait This bitter wind will leave no trace Young hearts in triumph we must erase We must erase
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