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Bela Fleck
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One day I'd like to be rich and famous
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Maybe be funny like Andy and Ames
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Be on TV and sing like Stevie
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And have a girl who'd never leave me
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But I'd really like a place
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Where there could be no war
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A bright and shiny world where there ain't no poor
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Where there's opportunity, peace and unity
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Where people can be what they want to be
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And where Apartheid could never happen again
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Where people don't judge you by the color of your skin
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Where I hold your hand and you hold mine
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Where a helpful hand is never hard to find
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A place where people care
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Where no one could bear
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When someone's hungry, with nothin' there
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Where the heart is never cold
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The young are never needy,
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The old are never poor,
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And the rich are never greedy
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So bring the power to the people
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The people to the power
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Cuz now is the time, this is the hour
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To stop thinkin' about war start thinkin' about peace
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So on this life, we can get another lease
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With a lesson to learn
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A new direction to turn
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So we can take it to the sky where we belong
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Cuz 'fore to long, we been to wrong
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We've got the right notes
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But we play the wrong song
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Stop thinkin' with your wallet
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Think with your mind
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So we can move ahead
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Instead of behind
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We got the people selling drugs
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People are dying
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Politicians talking and we know they're lyin'
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Taxes for the poor, none for the rich
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People starvin' here in American
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Now ain't that a bummer
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And now my heats been turned off
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From my job, I've been laid off
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What am I gonna do?
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Well, is the shape I'm in
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Because of my dark skin?
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Now I know that can't be true
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But since we're all down here
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Let's work to make it better
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Do our best for what it's worth
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But you know the rules are bent
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When you have to pay rent
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Just to live on earth
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Talk about justice
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We're gonna do something now
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That's gonna be really slick
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We're gonna listen to Mr. Fleck and Chick
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I'm gonna say one more thing
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Then I'll get outta your face
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How 'bout a sound
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With a little bass
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And we got missles on the ground
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Lasers in space
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Underground shelters, just in case
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That something goes boom
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Certain doom
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Cuz in our hearts we didn't make enough room
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For the love
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It comes from up above
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Let's stop talking war
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And let's offer the dove
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Cuz when it's done it's over
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When it's over, it's done
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We look back at the wars
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And see nobobdy won
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It's time to make a better place
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For out daughters and our sons
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Or life will be a blast
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Pardon the pun
Béla Fleck & The Original Flecktones - "...
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