- Only you can change the world today.
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- No king or leader will.
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- Liars, thieves, and vandals all,
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- Year on year, and still
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- You stand like stone, all deaf and mute
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- Or blinded by the light.
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- Used like cattle, farmed like sheep -
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- Can we end this bitter plight?
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- Another day another play
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- No end to their deceit -
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- Change will come when everyone
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- Here gets up on their feet;
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- And stands up firm to jeer the worms,
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- No quarter or reprieve!
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- Get organized and angry! In the
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- End, we'll make them leave.
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- The power is within you.
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- Hand in hand we'll change the beat -
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- End misery, bring balance to a
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- World that needs relief.
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- Only you can make this come to pass,
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- Rely on no one else.
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- Look all around, look up and
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- Down, and then look at yourself.
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- What are you waiting for this day?
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- Heaven's Gates to open wide?
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- Messiah come? Allah to save?
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- Truly Ð have a little pride.
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- Are you waiting for a miracle?
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- Reject these themes instead.
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- Engage in helping others, and
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- You will not spoil a thread
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- On the loom of life, the tapestry
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- Upon which falls a tale,
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- Waiting on the whims of fate
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- And winter's icy gale.
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- Is this the life you want for her?
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- The child you leave behind?
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- Is this the world you want for him?
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- Not I. Nor any sane of mind.
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- Get off your butts, you sleeping fools
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- For the children, please awake -
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- Or be to blame and bear the shame -
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- RAISE THE FIST, FOR ALL OUR SAKES!
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- - Hsing Lee
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