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Let Them Run Your Lives
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John Mellencamp
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Written by John Mellencamp
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Hello girls and boys
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As you sit in your carpeted bedrooms
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With your stereos on and on
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Playin' with those hundred dollar toys
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Built to occupy your minds
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So you don't notice your future's are gone
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And as you race on through the streets tonight
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Lookin' for some lonely lover to hold you tight
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You think that the world is alright
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Well you're out of touch, you're out of time
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You're gonna crack, your fragile regulated minds
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As you're headin' on to no kind of conclusion
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*Go on, let 'em run your lives
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Watch 'em as they cut your throat
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With they're parental carving knife
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Go on, let 'em run your lives
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Are you too young to see
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Or just to old to fight
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They've taken the energy away from you
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They haven't taught you enough to deal
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With the ordeal you must be goin' through
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Yeah but look at this now
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They've left you the schools
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They've left you the government
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But they're all fallin' down
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Don't forget to make the past due payments
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And in this world of uncertainties
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You can be certain that
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You must kiss the ass of the authoritites
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And kiss you will if you want to survive
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You don't have to look too hard to see
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That there just ain't no free rides
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Hell it takes a real man to survive
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(*Repeat)
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Well Jay Dee is locked in his soul some kinda hotel
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Well he's burnin inside he shakes shakes shakes
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All through the night
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And little Ruda Juda is passed out on the floor
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She's just so damn stupid won't somebody
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Take away her gun and show her the door
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Show her the door, show her that door's open
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And me I'm so misunderstood, but I'm still alive
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And my eyes are open wide to the fact
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That the world just will lie
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And it'll kick you right in the face
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(*Repeat)
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Hey are you too young to see
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Or just too old to fight
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Do we have to fight the rest of our lives
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