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I Been Down
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
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I am recognizing that the voice inside my head
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Is urging me to be myself and never follow someone else
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Because cree? Is all like voices, we all have a different kind
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So just clean out all your ears, these are my views and you will find
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Man,
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It's been a minute since it's been this nice out
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Blue skies out, no clouds, something to write down
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I'll have to go home soon and try to pay the bills
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If I had a nickel every time they called I'd make a mill
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But such is life, and as much as I'd like it
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To be different, hard work is how you make your luck in life, right?
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For now I sit here, sip beer, and contemplate
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Maybe fiending for a smoke, I'm hoping he can concentrate
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Out in the sun I think of everything I've done wrong
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Find I can't fit it all in one song, so
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For every half truth and every broken promise
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Please, accept these words I wrote in open honesty
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I apologize for every choice I might have made
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To hurt your feelings or your health, to ever bother someone else
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Your style of living is your choice, and we all want a different kind
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So, please, love all your faults
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I do the same with ones we find cause -
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I've been up, I've been down
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I've been lucky enough to find my higher ground
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In all my days, I've hoped and prayed
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That one of these days, I'd wake up, get up and go away
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Well I've got my rent on my mind, worry most of the time
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While wasting never spent hell-bent on the grind
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Down the wishing well fell the odd center a dime
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But only, seven percent of it supposed to be mine
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I'm getting, kinda fed up with trying to get ahead
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That's why - 9 out of 10 times I'm liable to be lying in bed
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Instead of living life like I'm dead
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No longer sit in the prison inside my head
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I'm starting to come to my senses and
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No longer be so defensive and
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Though sometimes seems so senseless
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I get back up and go
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I've been up, I've been down
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I've been lucky enough to find my higher ground
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In all my days, I've hoped and prayed
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That one of these days I'd just wake up, get up and go away
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This song is like a counseling session (whoosah)
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I need to channel my aggression (whoosah)
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I need to handle my profession
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I'm the planet's biggest panic stricken manic-depressant
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Questioning myself as I'm sitting right and looking back
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Drinking Jack, Heinekens, in both hands, crooked hat
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Mr. small complex smoking a cigarette
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Like you don't know me, what the fuck you think you're looking at
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Why is the fire in my eyes like I'm evil
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It's just I'm always suspicious of new people
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Self-centered lieutenant, I'm a well balanced soldier
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A lie with a strategist's chip on both shoulders
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Push the bullshit out of my life, keep biting
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Spiritual enlightenment, price this excitement
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Build strength within, I'm trying to find space
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Freedom of choice, but trying for blind faith
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I've been up, I've been down
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I've been lucky enough to find my higher ground
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In all my days, I've hoped and prayed
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That one of these days I'd just wake up, get up and go away
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Cause I've been up, I've been down
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I've been lucky enough to find my higher ground
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In all my days, I've hoped and prayed
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That one of these days I'd just wake up, get up and go away
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