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bound to destruction here we exist
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too comfortable, too numb, too weak to resist
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in our quest for knowledge we came to insanity
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killing the earth for power and vanity
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Murder came to us along the way
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we questioned not those to blame
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very clean he looked, yet grim
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Seven bloodhounds followed him
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fat from the life-source of their prey
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Murder fed them day by day
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one by one, and two by two
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he tossed them human hearts to chew
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next came Fraud, with his false smile
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all were fooled by his tactful guile
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we nurtured his existence accepted deceit
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his clever mind wove our defeat
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and the children, too innocent to know
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round his feet played to and fro
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we showed little care, there was no alarm
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turned our backs and let them starve
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clothed with the bible, as with light
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and in the shadows of the night
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like a serpent, next, Hypocrisy
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the age old creed of the so called free
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and many more destructions played
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in this ghastly masquerade
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their vile qualities in clever disguise
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all respectable to common eyes
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last came the cowardly leaders of the state
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before their thrones we lay
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those leaders bred a ghastly birth
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and laid dead all life upon the earth
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Hope lurked within this darkening hell
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but for those who listened death befell
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still She called for all to hear
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in hope that truth would overcome fear
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rise like lions after slumber
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in unvanquishable number
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shake your chains to earth like dew
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which in sleep had befallen you
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’ye are many ---- they are few.‘
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what is freedom? ---- ye can tell
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that which slavery is too well----
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for its very name has grown
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to an echo of your own.
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it is to work and have such pay
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as just keeps life from day to day
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in your limbs as in a cell
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for the tyrants use to dwell
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so that you for them are made
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loom, and plow, and sword, and spade,
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with or without your own will bent
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to their defense and nourishment.
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