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Artist: The Smashing Pumpkins
Canonical path: /smashing-pumpkins/freak
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Freak
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Freak
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They poison our sweet mother earth
Destroy our sacred bodies
To fill our mouths with junk and...
They call this knowledge
But knowing nothing
Means knowing far, far too much
They let our children
Starve in the name of peace
They march to the beat of
A killing machine
Life is not a dream when you can't wake up from the dream you wanted
Life is not a dream when you can't wake up from the dream you wanted
Oh... They'll pour the salt from your soul
Oh... They'll pour the salt from your soul
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
Scars and bars and 51 stars
In faith and milk and...
I'm drinking filth and disease
Oh pretty please, I'm begging freedom
There's lives to be blinded,
Serviced and kinded
Before we've paid
And then we'll pay some more
Do you know the score?
Cause I'm so fucking bored!
Life is not a dream when you can't wake up from the dream you wanted
Life is not a dream when you can't wake up from the dream you wanted
Oh... They'll pour the salt from your soul
Oh... They'll pour the salt from your soul
They'll sell your wounds as evidence of your hope
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
Life is not a dream when you can't wake up from the dream you wanted
Life is not a dream when you can't wake up from the dream you wanted
Life is not a dream
Life is not a...
Life is not a dream
Life is not a dream
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