| Well the airwaves ring loud
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| With all the things they don’t say
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| You writers, you pundits
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| You’re the Judas today
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| 'Cause you sit back and watch
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| While the world catches fire
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| And then you don’t say a word
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| While the stakes just get higher
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| The nsa’s listening in There’s a war that won’t end
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| But you fill up my head with all matter of spin
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| You twist a simple truth 'til it’s not what it seems
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| And The illusion of freedom, it’s the real American Dream
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| So people you’ve gotta turn your voice to a shout
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| You gotta open your eyes up and look what’s happening right now
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| 'Cause there’s a coup going down oh and this is a fact
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| Soon if you wanna be free you’ll have to take it back
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| If you wanna be free you’ll have to take it back
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| To the callous politician
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| Who sends boys on killing missions
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| And then sits back and smiles while the blood money keeps drippin'
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| Don’t say you serve me or anyone else
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| You’re a fuckin' bloodsucker
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| You’re just serving yourself
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| You send the truth on vacation
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| And the age of misinformation
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| Has dawned from the north down to the old slave plantations
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| And liberty, democracy and all the rest
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| Are just words that meant one thing
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| And now mean so much less
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| But you talk like a saint, so righteous and pure
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| But while people, they suffer, your pockets get full
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| You want me to think that you keep this world turning
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| While the smoke that keeps rising is our future burning
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| So people you’ve got to turn your voice to a shout
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| You gotta open your eyes up and look what’s happening right now
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| 'Cause there’s a coup going down oh and this is a fact
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| Soon if you wanna be free you’ll have to take it back
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| If you wanna be free you’ll have to take it back
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| When I finally look out on my last setting sun
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| I wanna leave the world a better place then when I did come
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| The time for doing nothings long since come and gone
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| People open your eyes look at what’s going on |