| Today is not like any other day
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| This one’s gone and turned a darker shade of gray
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| What will I have learned
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| Tell me, tell me, somebody tell me now
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| When this hard rain’s gone away?
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| There is a safe place that I used to know
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| It’s the only place that I wanna go Where else could I turn
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| Tell me, tell me, somebody tell me now
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| 'Til this hard rain’s gone away?
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| Grandma, grandpa, mother, father, sister, brother, Lord
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| Please help the child, I heard the preacher say, it’s so sad
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| I see the airplane, I hear the engine on the boat
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| But y’all can’t see me waving the flag
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| Somebody please wave the flag, yeah
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| Grandma, grandpa, mother, father, sister, brother, Lord
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| Please help the child, I heard the preacher say, it’s okay
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| I see the airplane, I hear the engine on the boat
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| But y’all can’t see me waving the flag
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| Somebody please wave the flag, yeah
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| What will I have learned
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| Tell me, tell me now, somebody tell me how
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| When this hard rain’s gone away?
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| Today is not like any other day
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| So I’m gonna have to find another way
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| People, we got to find another way
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| Can you tell me how
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| Tell me, tell me, somebody tell me now
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| When the hard rain’s gone away?
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| I see them waving the flag
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| Tell the chopper over here, man, we’re waving the flag
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| I see them waving the flag
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| Tell the boat over here, man, we’re waving the flag
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| Man, I’m waving the flag
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| Tell the chopper over here, man, we’re waving the flag
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| Man, I’m waving the flag
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| Tell the boat over here, man, we’re waving the flag
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| Waving the flag, waving the flag |