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Ryan Harvey
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Tea party on the capitol lawn, asking you which side you're on
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Drawing battle lines in this country
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We're a rich nation full of boarded homes, crowded prisons, abandoned schools
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Poor folks with hard goals, rich folks with poor souls,
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Undereducated and overgrown, uninsured and over-loaned
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Clinging hard to what we own, trying to win the rat race
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So you hate taxes on the working poor? Unless they're earmarked for the war?
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Or an electric fence on the border? But not for nurses and doctors?
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Priorities flipped, that's the way it looks to me, and I work hard for my money
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But I don't believe in an economy that sets people up to fall
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Tea party on the capitol lawn and Sarah Palin's singing along
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Laughing all the way to the Pentagon
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Tea party on the capitol lawn, asking you which side you're on
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Drawing battle lines in this country
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There's something in our world-view, something bout the lens we look through
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That keeps us from building something new that works out better for more of us
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It's in the crack where the levees broke, it's in the cash Goldman Sachs stole
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It's in the fields of Tomatoes where the legacy of slavery roams
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It's a hatred born of jealous fear, a hatred born and bred right here
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Xenophobic and insecure with a deadly outcome
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It's a racism that grows and thrives as religion's used to justify
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An endless list of human rights denied in the name of "Liberty"
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Tea party on the capitol lawn and Christian terrorists are singing along
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Getting ready for the race war
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Tea party on the capitol lawn, asking you which side you're on
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Drawing battle lines in this country
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You're saying "Immigrants should go back home", I say know the ground that you're standing on
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Cuz Arizona was Mexico, and your grandparents were European
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And our national heroes like Thomas Paine were immigrants when they came
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And called themselves Americans, that's how it's always been
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"They're taking our jobs", that's what you're told, and so that's the story-line you hold
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But the people putting folks out in the cold didn't come here on foot
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No, Maria and Juan didn't steal your jobs, they were outsourced by Bill and Ron
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As South America's wealth was robbed by U.S. corporate policies
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And when they dumping the Tea in the Boston, it was an attack against a corporation
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So I don't see the connection between their story and yours
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And Crispus Attucks and the Boston dead weren't fighting for a white nation
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They were fighting against an occupation like the Iraq and Afghan wars
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Tea party on the capitol lawn, asking you which side you're on
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Battle lines are being drawn in this country
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