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Artist: Molly Nilsson
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The Power Ballad
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The Power Ballad
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Bless the poets in their graves
Who say we're all gonna be saved
In the most unpredictable way
On the most predictable day
Who loves a sceptic?
And who do skeptics love?
Who won't surrender to the mysteries above
We were all born to be
So dangerously free
The power of love
Vs. The love of power
Don't wanna grow in their gardens
I wanna be the weed beyond the fence
I wanna live outside the frame
With no name in my defense
Fame, only makes you inhumane
Look at the kings all gone insane
I only wanna be rich
If everyone in the whole world is
The power of love
Vs. The love of power
I'd rather wear shirts with broken seams
Than to wear their hand-me-down dreams
Fashion only lasts a little while
But an open mind is always in style
You gotta be brave to be so afraid
I feel like I win every time I fail
The power of love
Vs. The love of power
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