gasoline addicts,
suffocate and burn, leaving
track marks, no future!

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runaway daughters
sold like meat to animals
wearing Wall Street suits!

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feed a hungry child
hold the addict while he shakes
the prisoner, you!

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old people in homes,
bedpans, needles in their arms,
memories erased!

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food stamps and meth labs,
all that's left, America!
bondage, slavery.

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my father, good man,
worked, became invisible,
i've followed his path!

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too many hungry
mouths, too little, spread too thin,
expendable ghosts.

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Jesus walked, water!
Buddha walked in the moment...
i just keep walking!

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patriotism,
cutting down trees, bloody saws,
children stacked, firewood!

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your lips tremble, lost
between speech and cold silence,
memory and taste.

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