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Ani Difranco
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Can't sit on my porch and smoke a j,
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And remember how peaceful life can be.
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But all night long are a bunch of pushers
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Sellin' drugs right there on my tv.
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Drugs that whether or not I buy
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Are gonna end up in my water supply
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Along with who knows what else
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Who knows when.
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Just gotta take a deep breath and drink it in.
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Round here if there's one thing people know
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It's that government ain't there for you it's all for show.
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And I'm tryin' to tell 'em, it don't have to be so!
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But I can understand that their confidence is low.
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Cuz' round here people so high they can see
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Over the tops of the tall pine trees,
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Down to the mouth of the Mississippi.
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Blood ignited in a blighted sky,
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Blood in the water, like we all could die
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Blood on the reeds glistening in the sun
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Blood on our hands, each and every one.
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Here in the calm before the wars,
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When the earth shrugs us off like dinosaurs.
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Here in the sunset days of yore, the first signs washing ashore.
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Goddess come and lift us
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Here in deepest Louisiane.
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In the gut where hunches come from
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A message goes out loud as it can.
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And you'd a thought we'd a come more far somehow
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Since the changing of the guard and all.
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I mean, dude could be fdr right now,
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And instead he's just shifting his weight.
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And the disappointment is the knockout blow
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Filmed in torturous slow-mo.
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Oh hope please come where I can see
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Don't let the poison get the best of me.
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Goddess come and lift us
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Here in deepest Louisiane.
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In the gut where hunches come from
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A message goes out loud as it can.
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Truth is for telling
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Truth is foretold.
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Truth is for those with the guts to behold.
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We got vampires down here in Louisiane
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We need voodoo dolls, we need talisman.
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We need wooden stakes and shards of light
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We need harbingers riding through the night.
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We need fountain pens, we need whale harpoons
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To overthrow the oil tycoons.
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Cuz' there's no fish in the water, no birds in the sky,
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No life in the soil, no end to the lie,
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No time like the present
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And it is passing us by...
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But it's never to late, never too late to try
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Cuz' if we all had to change, we all just would.
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And we would move closer, and that would be good.
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And we would buy local and we would buy less
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And we'd realize that wasn't our happiness.
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No that wasn't our happiness (x3)
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No that wasn't.
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Goddess come and lift us
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Here in deepest Lousiane. (x3)
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In the gut where hunches come from
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A message goes out loud as it can.
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