Joy beats oppresion, But oppression will make you pay, Cause our joy is fleeting while oppression never goes away.. You look them right in the eye, Yea you shout and sing them down, But joy, our joy, don't really care for fighting While oppression will just wait around for you to blink. Joy beats oppresion, But oppression will make you pay.
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He gave us all he could But when he got tired And we all get tired When we ain't thinking so good
When he got tired this country It took everything damn back Had freed that it god damn could. Bullies will always take back everything they can, From the joyous, from the free Lucky drunks who don't give a damn This country will always take back everything it can.
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He wasn't in it for hisself He was in it for you and for me But he fought it alone And that just makes you bitter and mean
For a while this could be so good For tonight we make the rules here inside this club Me and the girls are here to tell you
They're fucking with you 'cause they want what you have And that things are really pretty damn funny And that things aren't really quite so bad
Take this one thing with you to work and to school And to home to mom and to dad There are moments when you can stop the world Remember that friends don' t be sad
Take this one thing with you to work and to school And to home to mom and to dad Don't hang a man out to dry again, Don't make a man fight it alone again.
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