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Crosby Stills Nash & Young
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Would you knock a man down if you don't like the cut of his clothes
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Could you put a man away if you don't want to hear what he knows
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Well it's happening right here people dying of fear by the droves
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And I know most of you
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Either don't believe it's true,
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Or else you don't know what to do
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Or maybe I'm singing about you,
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Who knows.
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It's incredibly sick, you can feel it, as across the land it flows
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Prejudice is slick when it's a word game, it festers and grows,
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Move along quick, it furthers one to have somewhere to go
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You can feel it as it's rumblin'
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Let emotions keep a tumblin'
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Then as cities start to crumblin'
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Mostly empty bellies grumblin'
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Here we go
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People see somebody different fear is the first reaction shown
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Then they think they've got him licked the barbaric hunt begins and they move in slow
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A human spirit is devoured the remains left to carrion crow
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I was told that life is change
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And yet history remains,
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Does it always stay the same
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Do we shrug it off and say
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Only God knows
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By and by, somebody usually goes down to the ghetto
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Try and help but they don't know why folks treat them cold
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And the rich keep getting richer and the rest of us just keep getting old.
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You see one must have a mission
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In order to be a good Christian
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If you don't you will be missing
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High Mass or the evening show
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And the well fed masters reap the harvests of the polluted seeds they've sown,
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Smug and self-righteous they bitch about people they owe,
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And you can't prove them wrong, they're so God damn sure they know
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I have seen these things with my very own eyes and defended my battered soul,
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It must be too tough to die,
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American propaganda, South African lies
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Will not force me to take up arms, that's my enemies' pride,
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Ands I won't fight by his rules that's foolishness besides,
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His ignorance is gonna do him in and nobody's gonna cry,
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Because his children they are growing up and plainly tired of putting up
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With bigots and their silver cups
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They're fed up, they might throw up
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On you
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Teach You...
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