| We found a well that defies the laws of thermodynamics
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| We found a well that powers all our mechanics
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| An endless energy supply
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| From here in the ground
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| Surely, we must tell the entire town
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| People lined up for miles
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| Eagerly anticipating easier lives
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| But some more than others
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| Took days at a time
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| Impatience led to anger
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| And anger to crime
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| Voices escalating
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| Such elitist defiance
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| We started at self-sufficiency
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| And finished with violence
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| I could have sworn
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| That this was everything we ever wanted
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| Soon enough the well was regulated
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| Government running it and charging for the benefit
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| As you would expect
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| Some gained a sense of co-dependence
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| While others came to riot
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| Civil, national, continental wars
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| Overpopulation like never before
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| The fuel industry in its entirety
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| Was run into the ground
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| There were no more job opportunities
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| For the people of my little town
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| And the more poverty that struck
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| The more we relied on ourselves
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| But without jobs we have no money to fund the war
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| To protect our well
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| I guess the world before wasn’t so bad after all
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| I guess the world before wasn’t so bad after all
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| And so our country took the money
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| That it still had left
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| And dropped a nuclear bomb
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| Into the cavernous chest
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| Of the well
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| No more reason for war
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| No more proverbial hell
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| The world decided to start over
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| Erasing any record of the events that occurred
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| And ten-thousand years later
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| We found a well |