| In the 1970's
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| The OPEC nations began to dominate
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| The world’s oil economy
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| In the 1980's
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| Japan became the world’s
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| Number one economic power
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| In 1989 the nations of Eastern Europe
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| Attempted to restructure
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| While in the United States civil rights have
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| Collapsed at the hands of fundamentalists
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| And national insecurity’s at an all time high
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| Exxon and on and on and on
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| The ministers of double speak
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| New meaning of clean they tried to teach us
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| They staged the phoney shampoo of the Valdez greases
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| Completely Jheri curled the beaches
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| Pipe bomb for the NAACP
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| And a hit on Salman Rushdie, the Berlin Wall comes down
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| And the U.S. cracks down on illegal aliens
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| Ban the freedom of choice for those wanting abortion
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| And enforce capitol punishment
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| Twenty four hour radio ban
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| For indecency determined by the F.U.C.C
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| Why are we so anesthetized to the lies?
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| Because we do it in our own lives
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| We believe all the things that we want to hear
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| But then we also love to criticize
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| Bail out the banks
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| Loan art to the churches
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| Satanic Reverses
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| In 1992 the European economic community will reform
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| In 1997 the city of Hong Kong will become
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| A part of the People’s Republic of China
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| In 1999, and this is no coincidence
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| The nation of Panama will control it’s own canal
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| While in the United States
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| Civil rights have collapsed at the hands of Fundamentalists
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| And national insecurity’s at an all time high
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| Helms said ban the photograph of the Piss Christ
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| It’s sacrilegious, not an art piece
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| While we all try to discern between our cup of tea
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| And what we call obscenity, the house’s legislation
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| Ripped the phoney foundation off what we thought inherent
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| Sent Joey to the Supreme Court
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| Cause he made a statement, they called it
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| Desecration of the symbol that was meant to represent
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| The freedom of so called choice and dissent
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| They almost had me believing it, they were bleeding him
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| He said, «Burn baby, burn»
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| 'Til the street Samurai said to my face
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| That any flag that’s worth a shit
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| Was woven from fire in the first place
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| Hallelujah |