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Ryan Harvey
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I know a man who hates unions
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Even though he's in the union
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And the wage he gets from being union
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Gave him what he's got
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He lives his life quite nicely
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With a big house and a family
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And seldom has to worry
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About paying the bills
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Yes the power he got from his union card
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And his free time born from union blood
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Gave him a happy life
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I know a woman who hates the poor
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Cuz she scared herself of being poor
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And she hates that it's so close to her
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From where she's at right now
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She hangs through life on a thin thread
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And the pundits offer her hatred
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To make her feel like she's elevated
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Above somebody else
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But she knows and I know
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She's right their in shadows
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With all the somebody elses
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America, you can look like this
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Raised hard by the myths of whiteness
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Hanging with a tightness
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To a xenophobic past
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The deck from which your hands are dealt
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Is stacked centuries deep in cotton wealth
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And the stories that your people tell
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Are those of hope and pain
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We got angry men who were raised deprived
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Emotionally traumatized
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Who's way of dealing with the world outside
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Is rage or to block it out
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And strong women who work most their lives
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Unappreciated by the men in their lives
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Who know what it means to feel alive
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Cuz they know what it means to hurt
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Ignorance bred from despair
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That's what we got here
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America, you can look like this
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Raised hard by the myths of whiteness
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Hanging with a tightness
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To a xenophobic past
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The deck from which your hands are dealt
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Is stacked centuries deep in cotton wealth
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And the stories that your people tell
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Are those of hope and pain
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I was raised by parents who worked hard
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And they taught me how to work hard
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But a lot of people work hard
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And don't get what they deserve
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And so it was early on
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That I learned which side I'm on
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The one that fights for human beings
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In a world of dollar signs
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You can call me radical
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But I'd call myself practical
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You know?
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America, you can look like this
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Raised hard by the myths of whiteness
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Hanging with a tightness
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To a xenophobic past
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But that ain't gonna last
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