| Influencing ideas you have and the lives you make
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| Measure social position to your neighbor by what you can take
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| Because opportunity is not equal in our country
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| The social structure’s built to keep we the people down
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| You people with your plastic houses
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| You people with your plastic families
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| People with your plastic views
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| You know nothing of what the world offers you to do
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| Adults don’t believe children can think
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| Distrust of a next generation
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| Feel undermined when kids get tools
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| That were never available to you
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| I want to believe in my country
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| I want to believe in my textbooks
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| I want to believe in my leaders
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| I want to believe — aarrggh
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| Used in ways that seem to threaten all your adult values
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| Tell your child to believe in whitewash, not any cultural history
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| Teachers and parents don’t believe in the kids
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| Shit shouldn’t be taught how to think
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| Fear your history, fear your history
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| Fear it because it isn’t that wonderful
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| And if children were to learn the truth
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| All the horror that went on, they’d lose all respect for society
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| Anything damaging to this image
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| It’s got to now be suppressed
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| Just to protect the country’s future
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| From themselves and from the truth
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| I want to believe in my country
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| I want to believe in my textbooks
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| I want to believe in my leaders
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| I want to believe — aarrggh
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| Pretend we don’t see, why do they lie
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| Pretend we don’t see, why do they lie
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| Pretend we don’t see, why do they lie
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| Pretend we don’t see, why do they lie
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| Why do they lie
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| Why do they lie to us |