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- Lyrics to Both Youth Of Today Albums
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- by The Pusher
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- >>> A CULT Publication......1988 <<<
- -cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc-
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- YOT in general: Though their straight-edge views are very militant, the music
- is why YOT is one of the best bands on the New York City hardcore scene.
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- Break Down the Walls-Revelation Records
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- John "Porcell"- 1st guitar
- Craig- bass
- Drew- drums
- Ray of Today- vocals
- Ritchie- 2nd guitar
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- All songs (C) 1986 Youth Crew Jams
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- Make A Change
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- I see on the streets
- As we walk right by
- What little value we place on human lives!
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- But it's time we get priorities
- It's time to rearrange
- Won't turn away any longer
- It's time we make a change
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- People so cold
- They ignore others' pain
- People too proud to realize they're the same
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- Thinking Straight
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- Life's filled with many paths
- Which one should I take?
- When the choice comes, I won't run
- I'll be thinking straight!
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- Life's filled with conflicts...we'll face
- We'll overcome them...thinking straight!
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- Experiment with your mind
- You see things I can't see
- Well no thanks, friend
- Because now it ends when you push that shit on me!
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- My mind is free to think and see.
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- Strong enough to resist temptation
- We've been strong for all these years
- Yes, life gets rough, so we'll stand tough
- And confront all our fears!
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- Stabbed In The Back
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- We were brothers, you and me
- Loyal to our hardcore scene
- Our thoughts, our aims, our goals were true
- Then something happened to you
- You changed
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- I remember all the things that you said
- Shit you said!
- I guess it was just a bunch of fucking lies
- Fucking lies!
- Stabbed us all right in the back
- Right in the back!
- Don't you dare look me in the eye!
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- All we stood for, all our dreams
- You've forgotten what they mean
- I tell you this
- My thoughts are real, and I'll never change
- The way I feel!
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- Take A Stand
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- I see you here
- Do you have pride?
- Afraid to share what's inside
- You've been walked right by
- A real nice guy
- Overlooked and shoved aside
- Can't hear your voice back in the crowd
- Move up front and shout out loud!
- Take a stand!
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- Take a stand, say what you feel
- Be who you want, but be for real!
- Voice your opinion, don't just sit still
- Speak your mind at your free will
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- Take a stand!
- Stand your ground
- Don't let the world push you around
- Take a stand!
- Stand your ground
- Don't let the world push you around
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- Honesty
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- You steal and take from everyone else
- Do you feel good about yourself?
- Instead of taking, try to give
- And then you'll feel good about the way you live
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- Honesty
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- Too many of us filled with greed
- Overlooking those who need
- Open your eyes and change your ways
- Open your heart and break away
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- One Family
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- I have so much hope and anticipation
- For the future generations
- I think kids today are growing up smart
- With open minds and open hearts
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- We can do it!
- We'll put our heads to it
- And then we'll be
- One family!
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- A world filled with racial stress
- But it seems every year less and less
- Those old fashioned statements are going away
- Tomorrow will be a brighter day!
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- We can do it!
- We'll put our hearts to it
- And then we'll be
- One family!
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- Break Down The Walls
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- I used to think that labels were just symbols of pride
- But over time I've seen they only serve to divide
- It's so easy to judge people by the way they seem to be
- We must overcome this problem to live peacefully
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- Break
- Down
- The Walls!
- Yes, we'll break down the walls!
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- Look beyond the fashion of the crowd they are in
- Look beyond their riches or the color of their skin
- Look beyond appearance and the truth you will find
- Look for what's inside before you make up your mind!
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- Break
- Down
- The Walls!
- We'll all break down the walls!
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- Shout It!
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- Not on this stage to take up space
- I'm here to communicate face to face
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- I'll hold my head up high and...shout it!
- Look you in the eye and...shout it!
- Hold my head up high...shout it!
- Look you in the eye and shout it!
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- Criticized for speaking out
- I guess you don't know what we're about
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- So i'll hold my head up high...and shout it!
- Look you in the eye and...shout it!
- Hold my head up high...shout it!
- Look you in the eye and shout it!
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- We're just some friends who want to be heard
- Through our music, we'll spread our word
- Trying our best to figure what life is about
- Seeing the good makes me want to shout!
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- Shout it!
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- There's nothing wrong saying my part
- The message I cry is from the heart
- Won't change my ideas just to please you
- You've built the walls, we're breaking through!
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- Time To Forgive
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- In the back of my mind
- It keeps me on edge!
- A soul filled with love
- But I can't help but feel contempt instead
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- So let's forget the past and
- The grudges that we hold
- If we don't do it soon you
- Know it will explode
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- Let's shape a better way of life
- Time to forgive!
- I'm sorry for the bottled up anger
- What was it about?
- It's time to forgive
- I'm glad that's all over now
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- Positive Outlook
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- Through the clouds I see the light
- My conscience tells me what's wrong and right
- Morals and goals deep inside
- A bunch of feelings I can't hide, but that's me
- It's the way I live
- My outlook on life is positive!
- So why should I hide or try to conceal
- All of these feelings that I feel
- I like to sit and talk about them
- I want to stand and shout them!
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- Standing Hard
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- Proud of who I am, what I say, and what I do
- Proud of who I am, what I say, and what I do!
- I'm standing hard!
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- Free At Last
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- The world is filled with competition and greed
- A disgusting way of life
- But we'll try to break...
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- Free!
- Free at last!
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- From the animals in the slaughterhouse
- To the drugs on the streets
- They'll pollute our minds, our bodies
- But I know we'll break...
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- We've got to break free!
- We'll try...No!...we'll do it!
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- The monotonous of the working class
- We'll never fall into that rut
- We'll keep fighting until we are free at last!
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- Youth Of Today
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- The kids will make it happen
- We're starting a new way
- People helping people
- In the world today
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- Physically strong
- Morally straight
- Positive youth
- We're the youth of today
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- Never fight with each other
- Use our hands before our fists
- Then we'll kick down all the barriers
- Of hate and prejudice
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- Live fast die young
- was just a fad
- For a bunch of losers
- Who didn't care
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- I'm gonna live my life
- Breathe every breath
- Look towards the future
- And move straight ahead
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- We're Not In This Alone-Caroline Records
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- Porcell- guitar
- Walter- bass
- Ray of Today- vocals
- Sammy- drums
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- Flame Still Burns
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- Made their threats
- Ruin your name
- Thought I was broken
- But the spirit remains
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- And this flame will keep on burning strong
- And I will still continue to sing this song
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- Bad mouthed behind us
- Taken their shots
- But this tattered body will never be stopped.
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- And this flame will keep on burning strong
- And I will still continue to sing this song
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- We've heard it all before and we're ready for
- Some more
- If you think I'm gonna break, it's gonna take
- More than what you've got!
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- Don't count me out
- Cause I've got some more
- And I'm back with more strength
- And vigor than before
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- And this flame will keep on burning strong
- And I will continue to sing this song
- My feelings in the music and the words are written
- In stone
- And I know I'm not singing this song alone!
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- Slow Down
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- Lost the time to live
- No time to take
- Caught in a cycle that won't give you a break
- Tensions running high
- I can see it in your eyes
- You call that success I call it a lie
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- Slow down
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- I've got to slow down
- Cause I want to see
- All of what this world has to offer me
- Take a break
- Appreciate
- Before this lifetime slips away
- Slow down
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- Try to think back
- A long time ago
- When life was for living and the pace was slow
- Wasn't it worth it? Will you stay?
- I hope I don't let it slip away
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- Choose To Be
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- Not gonna
- Keep up my guard
- To prove I'm hard
- Or put on some act
- To earn your respect
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- Cause that's not the type I want to live
- And that's not the type of energy I want to give!
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- I guess I'm not cool
- According to you
- For having some friends
- Who don't seem to fit in
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- Well that's not the type of life I want to live
- And that's not the type of energy I want to give!
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- I guess you don't see
- Cause you seem to be
- Real tough
- But living in misery
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- Put It Aside
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- Maybe I shouldn't have spoken
- Just kept my mouth shut
- Maybe all the effort didn't help much
- Singing for better conditions and hoping
- For better days
- Not saying we're perfect of looking
- For some praise
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- Gossip, rumors, just plain lies, and we're on the same side
- Gossip, rumors let's put it aside
- Fuck, we're on the same side!
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- Knowing if I stumble, aware if I fall
- I don't need fingers pointed at me if you're not trying at all
- Not trying to come off righteous, just always tried to be sincere
- Didn't mean to come off so well learned cause I'm just another peer
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- I know what I'm shooting for
- I know how I felt
- And I don't have to prove it to anybody because
- I already proved it to myself
- No matter where I am in this world
- I'll know exactly where I stand
- I thought we were on the same side
- But at least I know I've tried
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- Wake Up and Live
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- Wake up and live your life
- See what there is to see
- I won't sit around all day
- Cause life means more to me
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- So many kids content
- To sleep their lives away
- But I'm gonna try
- To make the most out of this day
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- It takes some motivation
- It takes some love for life
- Why just sit complacent
- And let life pass you by?
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- Boredom is a choice
- I choose not to make
- Unlock that door, strive for more
- There's a better path to take
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- Wake up and live-breathe every breath
- Wake up and live-until my death
- Wake up and live so much to do
- Wake up and live-all of you
- C'mon...open your eyes
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- No More
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- Meateating, flesheating, think about it
- So callous to this crime we commit
- Always stuffing our face with no sympathy
- What a selfish, hardened society
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- So no more just looking out for myself...
- When the price paid is life of something else
- No more I won't participate!
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- We've got the power we've got the might
- To take what ever is in sight
- Not even worried, it's an unfair fight
- Well we've got a heart to us what's right so...
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- Our numbers are doubling in '88
- Cause the people are starting to educate
- Themselves, their friends and their families
- And we'll have a more conscious caring society
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- What Goes Around
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- A half ass commitment, a casual act
- Shows me the decency that you lack
- You're fucking with feelings and fucking with heads
- And "live for the moment" is all that you've said
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- What goes around comes around so watch yourself
- Cause you're falling down
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- Abusing, misusing you're out of control
- Your mind, spirit and body will take their toll
- A slave to your senses, I see nothing more
- Cause temporary pleasure is what you strive for
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- Taken what you've wanted, stepped on what's in your way
- But there will be a price that you'll have to pay
- Easy acquaintances, broken friends, happy now
- But the loser in the end
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- Broken promises, broken hearts
- Walk away when the pain starts
- You take what's yours you still want more
- If you only knew what's in store...
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- Potential Friends
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- Here I sit so shy
- Wondering what's going through your mind
- Or what you're even like
- As time ticks quickly by
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- A life so short, incomplete
- So many people I'd like to meet
- Feeling awkward, afraid
- Potential friends I could've made
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- Why do we keep to ourselves
- And dare not leave our shells?
- Let our feelings and emotions blend..
- We could be the best of friends
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- A Time We'll Remember
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- This is a time that we can live our dreams
- And a time so pure, at least it seems
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- A simple life a modest one where money plays a minor role
- And I pray and I'll try to keep this spirit inside as I start to grow old
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- This is an era of creativity, good music, and good friends
- And the dreams that we reach for seem to be at the tips of our hands
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- And it's getting too late to appreciate and it soon will be the past
- But I'll still have these memories, but why can't they last?
- Maybe they can!
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- This is a time we'll remember
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- This is a time with a lot of hope and very little fear
- And a time where every move we made seems so sincere
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- But when the song is sung and the moment's gone only you'll
- Know all we've shared
- And I hope that you can rekindle too, this sane feeling in the air
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- Live Free
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- Waving your flag, a blind patriot
- Can no longer see cause your eyes are shut
- "Love it or leave it" is your sentiment
- Instead of working for improvement
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- But I want to live free
- And I won't settle for this mediocrity
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- Waving your flag, we're number one
- Societies got you under their thumb
- Too ignorant to see through their subtle attack
- To make us content but we must fight back
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- You don't love your country, you just love yourself
- Because you sit complacent like everyone else
- If you fight for freedom, then do what's right
- Put down that flag, protest, and come join the fight
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- Understand
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- I'm caught in a rage
- I'm ready to fight
- My stance is so strong but I've lost my clear sight
- Your thoughts and your actions make me want to attack
- But I'll try to understand, I'll try to step back
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- Takes more strength to
- Put down your hands
- I've fought before and I know I can
- I don't want to get hostile, I'd rather
- Understand you
- And try to figure out
- Why you do what you do
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- Cut out that act, better step back
- You know we can understand
- You feel it inside, you know it's not right
- When you know we can understand
- Each other
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- Prejudice
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- Arguing your point about which race is best
- Think you've got some insight, well it's just prejudice
- And the more that you argue the more mad you get
- Well I don't want to fill myself with hate like that
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- You're prejudice..just look at you
- You're prejudice..and you're going to be judged too
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- You've taken your stance, you've split us apart
- Let's see how many bad feelings you can start
- Trying to make hatred seem real cool
- Keep talking those "facts" you come off the fool
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- Unite the race? What? Listen...
- We may be the same race but we're not the same
- You're cowards looking for someone else to blame
- And you're just a few cause most are too smart
- To listen to all the shit that you start
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- Keep It Up
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- You know it causes more problems
- You're not happy at all
- Every time you indulge
- You realize you fall
- All that you've learned
- Don't take the wrong turn
- If you keep it up you're gonna get burned
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- Go ahead keep it up
- I hope you don't keep it up
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- A position of respect, live up to it
- You never liked the trend, that's why you quit
- You know what is wrong
- You know that you're strong
- You knew the whole time that you didn't belong
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