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Revolution

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Revolution

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So tell me, family, now what do you think?

Watch it all go down the great big sink

Watch how the scum it rises to the top

Don't you wonder when it's all gonna stop?

Sometimes I wonder how we do sleep

Serving the dodgy companies we keep

All kicking and scrounging for the very first place

Dictionary definition of a rat race

Pay off those losers we elect to lead

Stealing from the mouths that we're meant to feed

Enslaving the very clothes upon my back

I feel the sting but I hear no crack, no crack, I'm saying

Running through the fire, running through the flame

Running through the hatred, pushing through the blame

Running through the hopelessness and shame

Revolution already underway

Big heavy pirates man digging those holes

Messing with something that they can't control

Tresspassing lands where they don't belong

All I hear is screaming where there once were songs

I got my brothers there fighting those wars

Fighting over scraps and scraping their souls

Under a blanket of a fire and pride

That can't keep us warm for the cold inside

Inside, I'm saying

Running through the fire, running through the flame

Running through the hatred, pushing through the blame

Running through the hopelessness and shame

Revolution already underway

So tell me when you think we're gonna rise?

Wake from this slumber wipe the tears from our eyes?

Yes from this nightmare yes I must now wake

Open my fist my destiny I take

Good people sick and tired of being pushed around

We call them kings but I see no crown

Tell me when you think we'll just stand up

Say enough is enough is enough,enough I'm saying

Running through the fire, running through the flame

Running through the hatred, pushing through the blame

Running through the hopelessness and shame

Revolution already underway

Take back your feet, take back your hands

Take back your words, take back your lands

Take back your heart, take back your pride

Don't got to run, don't got to hide

Revolution

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