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you can't handle the truth son we live
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in a world that has walls and those
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walls have to be guarded by men with
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guns who's gonna do it you you
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lieutenant Weinberg I have a greater
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responsibility than you can possibly
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fathom you weep for Santiago and you
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curse the Marines you have that luxury
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you have the luxury of not knowing what
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I know that Santiago's death while
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tragic probably saved lives and my
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existence while grotesque and
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incomprehensible to you saves lives you
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don't want the truth because deep down
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in places you don't talk about it
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parties you want me on that wall you
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need me on that wall we use words like
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honor code loyalty we use these words as
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the backbone of a life spent defending
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something you used them as a punchline I
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have neither the time or the inclination
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to explain myself to a man who rises and
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sleeps under the blanket of the very
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freedom that I provide and then
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questions the manner in which I provide
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it I would rather you just said thank
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you and went on your way otherwise I
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suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a
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post either way I don't give a damn what
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you think you are entitled to thought
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about what you said to me the other day
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of my painting
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instead of half the night thinking about
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it something occurred to me
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I fell into a deep peaceful sleep and
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haven't thought about you since you know
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what occurred to me no we're just a kid
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you don't have the faintest idea what
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you're talking about why thank you
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you've never been out of Boston
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nope if I asked you about out you'd
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probably give me the skinny on everybody
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art book ever written Michelangelo you
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know a lot about him life's work
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political aspirations him in the Pope
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sexual orientation the whole works right
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but you can't tell me what it smells
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like in the Sistine Chapel
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you've never actually stood there looked
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up at a beautiful ceiling
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seen that
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if I ask you about women cover give me a
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silver sir your personal favorites you
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may have even been laid a few times but
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you can't tell me what it feels like to
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wake up next to a woman and feel truly
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happy
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a tough kid
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I asked you about why you probably throw
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Shakespeare at me right once more into
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the breach dear friends you never been
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near one you've never held your best
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friend's head in your lap and watch him
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gasp his last breath looking to you for
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help I ask you about love I be caught me
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a sonnet if you've never looked at a
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woman and then totally vulnerable
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knowing someone that could level you
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with her eyes feeling like God put an
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angel on earth just for you I could
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rescue you from the depths of hell and
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you wouldn't know what it's like to be
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her angel they have that love for her be
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there forever through anything through
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cancer and you would know about sleep
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and sitting up in a hospital room for
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two months holding her hand because the
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doctors could see in your eyes that the
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terms visiting hours don't apply to you
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you don't know about real loss because
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it only occurs when you love something
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more than you love yourself I doubt you
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ever dare to love anybody that much I
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look at you I don't see an intelligent
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confident man
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I see a cocky scared shitless kid but
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your genius will no one denies that no
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one could possibly understand the depths
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of you but you presume to know
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everything about me because you saw a
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painting of mine you ripped my [ __ ]
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life apart you're an orphan right
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do you think I know the first thing
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about how hard your life has been how
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you feel who you are because I've heard
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all of the twist does that encapsulate
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you personally I don't give a [ __ ] about
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all that because you know what I can't
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learn anything from you I can't read in
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some [ __ ] book unless you want to
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talk about you who you are
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and I'm fascinated I mean
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but you don't want to do that to your
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sport you're terrified of what you might
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say
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you need chief
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we didn't gonna believe this we used to
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fit right here I'd hold you up to say to
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your mother this kid's gonna be the best
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kid in the world
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this kid's gonna be somebody better than
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anybody ever knew and you grew up good
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and wonderful it was great just watching
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every day was like a privilege then the
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time come for you to be your own man and
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take on the world and you did but
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somewhere along the line you changed you
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stopped being you you let people stick a
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finger in your face and tell you you're
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no good and when things got hard you
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started looking for something to blame
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like a big shadow let me tell you
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something you already know the world
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ain't all sunshine and rainbows it's a
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very mean and nasty place and I don't
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care how tough you are it will beat you
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to your knees and keep you there
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permanently if you let it you me or
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nobody is gonna hit as hard as life but
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it ain't about how hard you hit it's
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about how hard you can get hit and keep
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moving forward how much you can take and
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keep moving forward that's how weird it
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is done now if you know what you're
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worth the glottic get what you're worth
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but you gotta be willing to take the
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hits and not pointing fingers saying you
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ain't where you wanna be because of him
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or her or anybody cowards do that and
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that ain't you
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you're better than that
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I'm always you love you no matter what
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no matter what happens you my son it you
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might play you're the best thing in my
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life but until you start believing
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yourself you gonna have a life don't
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forget to visit your mother
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rehabilitated well now let me see you
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know I don't have any idea what that
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means well that means you're ready to
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rejoin society I know what do you think
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it means something to me it's just a
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made-up word the politicians were so
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that young fellows like yourself can
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wear a suit and the time I have a job
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what do you really want to know am i
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sorry for what I did
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well I there's not a day goes by I don't
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feel regret not because I'm in here
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because you think I should I look back
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on the way I was then a young stupid kid
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who committed that terrible crime I want
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to talk to him I want to try to talk
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some sense to him tell him the way
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things are but I can't
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that kids long gone this old man is all
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of us left I gotta live with that
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yeah billet ain't it it's just a
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[ __ ] word so you go on and stamp
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your form Sonny and stop wasting my time
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because I tell you the truth I don't
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give a [ __ ] why is not the greatest
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country in the world professor that's my
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answer
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you're saying yes let's talk about fine
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look Sharon the NEA is a loser yeah it
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accounts for a penny out of our paycheck
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but he gets to hit you with it anytime
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he wants it doesn't cost money it cost
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votes it costs airtime and column inches
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you know why people don't like liberals
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cuz they lose if liberals are so [ __ ]
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smart oh come they lose so goddamn
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always hey and with a straight face
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you're gonna tell students that America
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is so star-spangled awesome that we're
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the only ones in the world who have
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freedom Canada has freedom Japan has
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freedom the UK France Italy Germany
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Spain Australia Belgium has freedom so
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207 sovereign states in the world like
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180 of them have freedom all right and
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got you a sorority girl just in case you
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accidentally wander into a voting booth
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one day there's some things you should
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know and one of them is there is
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absolutely no evidence to support the
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statement that were the greatest country
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in the world were 7th and literacy 27th
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and math 22nd in science 49th and life
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expectancy 178th in infant mortality
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third and median household income number
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four in labor ports are number four in
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exports we lead the world in only three
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categories number of incarcerated
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citizens per capita number of adults who
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believe angels are real and defense
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spending where we spend more than the
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next 26 countries combined 25 of whom
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her allies no no this is the fault of a
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twenty-year-old college student but you
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nonetheless are without a doubt a member
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of the worst period generation period
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ever periods when you ask what makes us
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the greatest country in the world I
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don't know what the [ __ ] you're talking
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about Yosemite
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sure used to be we stood up for what was
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right we fought for moral reasons we
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passed laws struck down laws for moral
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reasons we waged wars on poverty not
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poor people we sacrificed we cared about
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our neighbors we put our money where our
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mouths were and we never beat our chest
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we built great big things made ungodly
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technological advances explored the
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universe cured diseases and we
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cultivated the world's greatest artists
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and the world's greatest economy we
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reached for the stars acted like men we
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aspired to intelligence we didn't
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belittle it it didn't make us feel
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inferior we didn't identify ourselves by
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who we voted for in the last election
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and we didn't scare so easy
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[Music]
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we were able to be all these things and
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do all these things because we were
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informed by great men men who were
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revered first step in solving any
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problem is recognizing there is one
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[Music]
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what's been wrong with me for 19 years
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I've been a witness and I tell you I've
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been complicit I love you Steve you know
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how much I love that you don't care how
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much money a person makes you care what
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they make but what you make isn't
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supposed to be the best part of you when
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you're a father that's what's supposed
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to be the best part of you and it's
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caused me two decades of agony Steve
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that it is for you the worst it's a
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little thing it's a very small thing fix
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it fix it now or you can contact me
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that's my new job working anywhere I
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want I'm sorry
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well you know what actually just works
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out better for me you know it is
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slimmies the summer come to class we're
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next nuttin you know well it's all right
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to be angry
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hey why should I be mad for saying at
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least he said goodbye this time I just
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wish I hadn't wasted my money buying a
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stupid present I'm sorry I'd you know if
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there was something that I hey you know
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what
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you ain't gonna do no no no hey you know
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ain't like I'm still five years old you
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know ain't like imma be sittin up every
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night asking my mom when's daddy coming
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home you know who needs him he wasn't
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there to teach me how to shoot my first
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basket but I learned didn't I hey I got
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pretty damn good as to did not fulfill
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got through my first day without him
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right I learned how to drive I learn how
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to shave I learned how to fight without
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him I had 14 great birthdays without him
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he never even sent me a damn car
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I need them then and I'll need them now
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we'll know you know what Uncle Phil I'm
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gonna get through college without him
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I'm gonna get a great job without him
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I'm gonna marry me a beautiful honey and
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I'm having me a whole bunch of kids I'll
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be a better father than he ever was and
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I sure as hell don't need him for that
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cuz I ain't a damn thing he could ever
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teach me about how to love my kids how
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come you don't want me man you know
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we're sitting here you and I and I get
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couple of regular fellas
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you do what you do I do what I gotta do
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and now that we've been face to face
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if I'm there I gotta put you away I
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won't like it but I'll tell you
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if it's between you and some poor
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bastard whose wife you're gonna turn
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into a widow brother you are going down
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I'm sorry I don't want to be an emperor
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that's not my business I don't want to
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rule or conquer anyone
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I should like to help everyone if
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possible Jew Gentile black man white we
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all want to help one another human
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beings are like that we want to live by
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each other's happiness not by each
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other's misery we don't want to hate and
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despise one another in this world is
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room for everyone and the good earth is
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rich and can provide for everyone the
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way of life can be free and beautiful
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but we have lost the way greed has
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poisoned men's souls has barricaded the
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world with hate has goose-stepped us
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into misery and bloodshed
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we have developed speed but we have shut
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ourselves in machinery that gives
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abundance has left us in want our
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knowledge has made us cynical our
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cleverness hard and unkind we think too
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much and feel too little more than
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machinery we need humanity more than
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cleverness we need kindness and
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gentleness without these qualities life
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will be violent and all will be lost
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the aeroplane and the radio have brought
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us closer together the very nature of
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these inventions cries out for the
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goodness in men cries out for universal
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brotherhood for the unity of us all even
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now my voice is reaching millions
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throughout the world millions of
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despairing men women and children
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victims of a system that makes men
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torture and imprison innocent people
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those who can hear me I say do not
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despair the misery that is now upon us
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is but the passing of greed the
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bitterness of men who fear the way of
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human progress the hate of men will pass
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and dictators die and the power they
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took from the people will return to the
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people and so long as men die Liberty
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will never perish
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soldiers don't give yourselves to brutes
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men who despise you enslave you who
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regiment your lives tell you what to do
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what to think of what to feel who drill
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you diet you treat you like cattle use
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you as cannon fodder don't give
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yourselves to these unnatural men
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machine men with machine minds and
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machine hearts you are not machines you
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are not cattle you are men you have the
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love of humanity in your hearts
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you don't hate only the unloved hate
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the unloved and the unnatural soldiers
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don't fight for slavery fight for
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liberty in the seventeenth chapter of
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st. Luke it is written the kingdom of
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God is within man not one man nor a
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group of men but in all men in you you
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the people have the power the power to
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create machines the power to create
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happiness
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you the people have the power to make
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this life free and beautiful to make
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this life a wonderful adventure then in
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the name of democracy let us use that
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power let us all unite let us fight for
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a new world a decent world that will
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give men a chance to work that will give
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you the future and old age a security by
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the promise of these things brutes have
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risen to power but they lie they do not
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fulfill that promise they never will
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dictators free themselves but they
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enslave the people
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now let us fight to fulfill that promise
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let us fight to free the world to do
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away with national barriers to do away
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with greed with hate and intolerance let
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us fight for a world of reason a world
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where science and progress will lead to
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all men's happiness
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soldiers in the name of democracy let us
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all unite
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you
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you
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