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Same Shit / Complicated
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Kimya Dawson
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You were looking down at them, they were looking down at you
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You were starched and pressed, they were all disheveled
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They were holding hands, They were ragamuffins and they said
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"I know we're not fancy but we're on the same level
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We've got plans, big plans! We're gonna change the world
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All you care about is dollars, that doesn't make sense
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All you do is hit snooze, watch the news, buy shoes, drink booze
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Make money feel spent and
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Day after day after day, it's the same shit
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Day after day after day, it's the same shit
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Day after day after day, it's the same shit
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Day after day after day after day after day."
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Then you look at them without batting an eye and say
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"Hey little hippie, let your freak flag fly
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Why don't you go smoke a bowl in your best tie-dye?
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Get a tattoo of a dancing bear holding a peace sign
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You can talk the talk but when it comes to real change
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Are you and all your little friends exactly the same?
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You sit around in potlucks, pointing fingers, placing blame
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Drinking kombucha and eating tempeh and
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Day after day after day, it's the same shit
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Day after day after day, it's the same shit
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Day after day after day, it's the same shit
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Day after day after day after day after day."
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If you are judging them while they are judging you
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And you think that makes them assholes, maybe you're an asshole too
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Do we argue with each other until we both turn blue or
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Find similarities in what we like and what we do?
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Yeah, just because someone does not look like me
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Doesn't mean they are a clone or a sheep
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Maybe they like their job and they're living their dream
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And they love their friends and their family
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Yeah, some people thrive between nine and five
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And feel like they're choking if their neck's not tied
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And some people feel as if they're gonna die if
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Their seams aren't straight and their shoes not tied
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Some people like business, some people like numbers
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Some people grow organic heirloom cucumbers
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And only feel free with their hands in the dirt
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In a pair of old jeans and their favorite t-shirt
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Some people feel enslaved when they have a boss
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Some people without one feel totally lost
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To make this world work, it takes all different kinds
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We all have different tastes, different strengths, different minds
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So it doesn't make sense to generalize
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And it doesn't make sense to judge with our eyes
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We need more compassion, we need to be kind
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If you open your heart, you might like what you find
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Cause there are some nice bus drivers, and there's some mean bus drivers
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And there's some nice cops in Madison, Wisconsin
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And there's some nice teachers, and there's some mean teachers
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Just because you got a mean teacher doesn't mean all teachers suck
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And no one is nice all the time, no one is mean all the time
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Think about what someone's going through that's making them be mean to you
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Like maybe their pet gerbil died and they are really sad inside
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Or maybe they got in a fight with someone that they really liked
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Or maybe they are really shy, don't know how to socialize
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May just want to run and hide, not saying that it's justified
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But if we learn to empathize, the resentments will vaporize
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Situations metamorphize before our very eyes
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Then the need to stereotype will become outdated
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When we realize that everyone is really complicated
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We are all so complicated
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We are all so complicated
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I am also complicated
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I am also complicated
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I'm a black mom, a lactivist, a home-owning punk
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It's been over a decade since the last time I got drunk
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I drive a mini-van, and I've got junk in the trunk
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I think Danny DeVito is a total hunk
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I like revisiting the shit my therapist helps me remember
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Being friends with someone for a long time, still not knowing their gender
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I fight for equal rights, and I fight for inner peace
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And I pray to the dead for the gratitude I need
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I've got chickens in my backyard and a little garden plot
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I really hate commercials but I got a slap-chop
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Cause I'm a sucker for a remix, let me tell you what
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By the time that I am finished, you are gonna love these nuts
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I'm a little bit pop culture, a lot bit DIY
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I don't know the definition of TMI
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I write poems about my period, post pictures of my log
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If you don't like body functions, you shouldn't read my blog
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My husband's a musician from the mountains in France
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He wrote me a song, we did interpretive dance
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Then he knocked me up, now we have the coolest kid
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Yeah, hooking up with him's the smartest thing I ever did
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And I feel like I can fly when I'm on roller skates
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I get a little high when I eat dried dates
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I feel like I'm unloading when I'm loading up the car
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I feel like I'm exploding when I'm holding my guitar
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I don't understand what numbers have to do with success
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Or what sales have to do with happiness
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Unless they're the kind of sails that will carry me to sea
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Where my grandma and grandpa are waiting for me
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I never thought I'd make it to 25, now I'm 37 and I'm glad that I'm alive
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If I ever need a tour bus, I'm still gonna drive
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Cause I looking out the windshield as the world goes by
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Looking out the windshield as the world goes by
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Yeah, looking out the windshield as the world goes by
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Now I'm 37 and I'm glad that I'm alive
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And I like looking out the windshield as the world goes by
Kimya Dawson - Same Shit/Complicated
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