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Artist: Melvins
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Sacrifice
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Sacrifice
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Can't you hear the war cry
It's time to enlist
The people speak as one
The cattle, the crowd
Those too afraid to live
Demand a sacrifice
Demand a sacrifice
Demand a sacrifice of your life
Sacrifice
Can you smell their stinking breath
Listen to them
Chanting and gasing and
Chanting their slogans
It's a grave digger's song
Praising God and state
So the nation will live
So we all can remain as cattle
They demand a sacrifice
They demand a sacrifice
They demand a s sacrifice of your life
Sacrifice
Submitted by Jason Penner
THE BALLAD OF DWIGHT FRY:
I was gone for fourteen days
Could have been gone for more
Held up in the intensive care ward
Lying on the floor
I was gone for all those days
But I was not all alone
I made friends with a lot of people
In the danger zone
See my lonely life unfold
I see it every day
See my lonely mind explode
We're not going away
I coulda lost some weight there
And I really need some rest
Sleeping don't come very easy
In a straight white vest
She'd like to see the little children
She's only four years old
I give her back all of her playthings
Even ones I stole
See my lonely life unfold
I see it every day
See my lonely mind explode
When I go insane
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