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Tom Frampton
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Of course a social relation can't be changed with a bomb
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It takes more than dynamite to get folks to respond
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Of course tomorrow morning if our whole system collapsed
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We'd divide ourselves again on lines of gender, race, and class
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But tonight I don't care if we win a million hearts
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Unless we rip them out their chests and start throwing them at cars
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Because tonight it's not enough to sympathize and wear pins
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They count everyone who doesn't rise up as a win
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Lying in bed we dream a thousand revolutionary plots
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We're fucking petrified to use the bit of power we got
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It's not to say it's not important to build and organize
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But all talk and no act is just reaction in disguise
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So some of us aren't gonna wait another thousand years
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For the world to loose their crutches and to swallow their fear
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Because complacency is guilt and response is overdue
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Johnny, the Movement needs your heart but it needs your body, too
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We'll build castles in the sky from the ruins of a hell on earth
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And find a rage to live inside so full it's about to burst
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Johnny, we'll shout our songs in the wreckage tonight
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And smuggle our stories out through the gauntlets and bring them back to life
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As bombs and beating hearts
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A little piece of each of us inside is a cop
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We try to fuck each other over just to rise to the top
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And the dog mimics the master but he only eats the scraps
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We whip the ones below but get cracked on our own back
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There's a banker and a fascist deep in all of our bones
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And it comes as no surprise because that's all that we've known
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But a week ago I saw a garden in a vacant lot
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I saw an empty building become a living, breathing squat
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I saw partiers take over city rush-hour roads
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I saw a little bit of beach underneath the paving stone
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If we can manifest these situations in the street
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And subvert our daily lives that we're walking through asleep
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Maybe there's hope for us, too, beyond the products on sale
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Beyond myths of human nature and a hundred thousand jails
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Imagine tearing down the borders our society defines
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Imagine what we could become given a little work and time
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We'll build castles in the sky from the ruins of a hell on earth
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And find a rage to live inside so full it's about to burst
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Johnny, we'll shout our songs in the wreckage tonight
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And smuggle our stories out through the gauntlets and bring them back to life
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As bombs and beating hearts
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