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American Flag Umbrella
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Derek Webb
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I'm building a house on the limb
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I need something that could stop a war
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But I'm beset on all sides
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By extremists with eyes on my heart
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So I lie to everyone
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I've lied to so many lovers
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I've gotten away with it too
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But if God is against us
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Then who can be for us my friends
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There's justice for everyone
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Please take your hands off my brother
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Please take your laws off my lover
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The agents of law
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Should always be blind and on time
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Till there's freedom for everyone
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Where are your American brothers
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American before they were named
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They're a huddling mass
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With no oceans to cross for our shores
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Where there's fortune for everyone
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Oppression is always oppression
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No matter the reasons or means
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For skin or for sex,
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By stares or by fists it's the same
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There are blinders on everyone
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I've looked through the eyes of my father
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I've walked through Lincoln's backyard
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And there's still a backseat
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When you ride on the bus through this town
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There's color on everyone
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So we lie beneath a tree of no color
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Like an American flag umbrella
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It keeps the elements out
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And it's stuck to the ground in this place
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But there's room for everyone
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I know a way out of hell
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We raise all our enemies' children
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After they've murdered ours
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We affix all their scars to our walls
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So there's heartbreak for everyone
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In the end it will all be okay
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That's what the wise men tell us
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So if it's not okay then it's not the end, oh my friends
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There's hope for everyone
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