• you can't handle the truth son we live

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• in a world that has walls and those

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• walls have to be guarded by men with

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• guns who's gonna do it you you

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• lieutenant Weinberg I have a greater

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• responsibility than you can possibly

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• fathom you weep for Santiago and you

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• curse the Marines you have that luxury

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• you have the luxury of not knowing what

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• I know that Santiago's death while

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• tragic probably saved lives and my

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• existence while grotesque and

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• incomprehensible to you saves lives you

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• don't want the truth because deep down

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• in places you don't talk about it

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• parties you want me on that wall you

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• need me on that wall we use words like

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• honor code loyalty we use these words as

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• the backbone of a life spent defending

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• something you used them as a punchline I

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• have neither the time or the inclination

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• to explain myself to a man who rises and

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• sleeps under the blanket of the very

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• freedom that I provide and then

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• questions the manner in which I provide

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• it I would rather you just said thank

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• you and went on your way otherwise I

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• suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a

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• post either way I don't give a damn what

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• you think you are entitled to thought

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• about what you said to me the other day

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• of my painting

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• instead of half the night thinking about

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• it something occurred to me

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• I fell into a deep peaceful sleep and

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• haven't thought about you since you know

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• what occurred to me no we're just a kid

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• you don't have the faintest idea what

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• you're talking about why thank you

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• you've never been out of Boston

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• nope if I asked you about out you'd

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• probably give me the skinny on everybody

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• art book ever written Michelangelo you

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• know a lot about him life's work

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• political aspirations him in the Pope

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• sexual orientation the whole works right

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• but you can't tell me what it smells

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• like in the Sistine Chapel

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• you've never actually stood there looked

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• up at a beautiful ceiling

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• seen that

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• if I ask you about women cover give me a

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• silver sir your personal favorites you

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• may have even been laid a few times but

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• you can't tell me what it feels like to

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• wake up next to a woman and feel truly

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• happy

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• a tough kid

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• I asked you about why you probably throw

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• Shakespeare at me right once more into

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• the breach dear friends you never been

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• near one you've never held your best

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• friend's head in your lap and watch him

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• gasp his last breath looking to you for

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• help I ask you about love I be caught me

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• a sonnet if you've never looked at a

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• woman and then totally vulnerable

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• knowing someone that could level you

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• with her eyes feeling like God put an

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• angel on earth just for you I could

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• rescue you from the depths of hell and

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• you wouldn't know what it's like to be

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• her angel they have that love for her be

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• there forever through anything through

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• cancer and you would know about sleep

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• and sitting up in a hospital room for

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• two months holding her hand because the

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• doctors could see in your eyes that the

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• terms visiting hours don't apply to you

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• you don't know about real loss because

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• it only occurs when you love something

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• more than you love yourself I doubt you

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• ever dare to love anybody that much I

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• look at you I don't see an intelligent

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• confident man

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• I see a cocky scared shitless kid but

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• your genius will no one denies that no

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• one could possibly understand the depths

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• of you but you presume to know

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• everything about me because you saw a

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• painting of mine you ripped my [ __ ]

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• life apart you're an orphan right

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• do you think I know the first thing

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• about how hard your life has been how

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• you feel who you are because I've heard

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• all of the twist does that encapsulate

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• you personally I don't give a [ __ ] about

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• all that because you know what I can't

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• learn anything from you I can't read in

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• some [ __ ] book unless you want to

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• talk about you who you are

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• and I'm fascinated I mean

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• but you don't want to do that to your

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• sport you're terrified of what you might

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• say

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• you need chief

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• we didn't gonna believe this we used to

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• fit right here I'd hold you up to say to

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• your mother this kid's gonna be the best

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• kid in the world

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• this kid's gonna be somebody better than

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• anybody ever knew and you grew up good

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• and wonderful it was great just watching

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• every day was like a privilege then the

  06:04

• time come for you to be your own man and

  06:06

• take on the world and you did but

  06:08

• somewhere along the line you changed you

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• stopped being you you let people stick a

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• finger in your face and tell you you're

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• no good and when things got hard you

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• started looking for something to blame

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• like a big shadow let me tell you

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• something you already know the world

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• ain't all sunshine and rainbows it's a

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• very mean and nasty place and I don't

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• care how tough you are it will beat you

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• to your knees and keep you there

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• permanently if you let it you me or

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• nobody is gonna hit as hard as life but

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• it ain't about how hard you hit it's

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• about how hard you can get hit and keep

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• moving forward how much you can take and

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• keep moving forward that's how weird it

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• is done now if you know what you're

  06:54

• worth the glottic get what you're worth

  06:57

• but you gotta be willing to take the

  06:58

• hits and not pointing fingers saying you

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• ain't where you wanna be because of him

  07:02

• or her or anybody cowards do that and

  07:04

• that ain't you

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• you're better than that

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• I'm always you love you no matter what

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• no matter what happens you my son it you

  07:20

• might play you're the best thing in my

  07:24

• life but until you start believing

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• yourself you gonna have a life don't

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• forget to visit your mother

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• rehabilitated well now let me see you

  07:46

• know I don't have any idea what that

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• means well that means you're ready to

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• rejoin society I know what do you think

  07:58

• it means something to me it's just a

  08:01

• made-up word the politicians were so

  08:05

• that young fellows like yourself can

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• wear a suit and the time I have a job

  08:11

• what do you really want to know am i

  08:16

• sorry for what I did

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• well I there's not a day goes by I don't

  08:21

• feel regret not because I'm in here

  08:27

• because you think I should I look back

  08:31

• on the way I was then a young stupid kid

  08:36

• who committed that terrible crime I want

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• to talk to him I want to try to talk

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• some sense to him tell him the way

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• things are but I can't

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• that kids long gone this old man is all

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• of us left I gotta live with that

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• yeah billet ain't it it's just a

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• [ __ ] word so you go on and stamp

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• your form Sonny and stop wasting my time

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• because I tell you the truth I don't

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• give a [ __ ] why is not the greatest

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• country in the world professor that's my

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• answer

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• you're saying yes let's talk about fine

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• look Sharon the NEA is a loser yeah it

  09:41

• accounts for a penny out of our paycheck

  09:44

• but he gets to hit you with it anytime

  09:45

• he wants it doesn't cost money it cost

  09:47

• votes it costs airtime and column inches

  09:49

• you know why people don't like liberals

  09:51

• cuz they lose if liberals are so [ __ ]

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• smart oh come they lose so goddamn

  09:55

• always hey and with a straight face

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• you're gonna tell students that America

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• is so star-spangled awesome that we're

  10:00

• the only ones in the world who have

  10:03

• freedom Canada has freedom Japan has

  10:04

• freedom the UK France Italy Germany

  10:07

• Spain Australia Belgium has freedom so

  10:09

• 207 sovereign states in the world like

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• 180 of them have freedom all right and

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• got you a sorority girl just in case you

  10:17

• accidentally wander into a voting booth

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• one day there's some things you should

  10:21

• know and one of them is there is

  10:22

• absolutely no evidence to support the

  10:24

• statement that were the greatest country

  10:26

• in the world were 7th and literacy 27th

  10:27

• and math 22nd in science 49th and life

  10:30

• expectancy 178th in infant mortality

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• third and median household income number

  10:35

• four in labor ports are number four in

  10:38

• exports we lead the world in only three

  10:39

• categories number of incarcerated

  10:41

• citizens per capita number of adults who

  10:43

• believe angels are real and defense

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• spending where we spend more than the

  10:47

• next 26 countries combined 25 of whom

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• her allies no no this is the fault of a

  10:51

• twenty-year-old college student but you

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• nonetheless are without a doubt a member

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• of the worst period generation period

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• ever periods when you ask what makes us

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• the greatest country in the world I

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• don't know what the [ __ ] you're talking

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• about Yosemite

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• sure used to be we stood up for what was

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• right we fought for moral reasons we

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• passed laws struck down laws for moral

  11:26

• reasons we waged wars on poverty not

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• poor people we sacrificed we cared about

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• our neighbors we put our money where our

  11:35

• mouths were and we never beat our chest

  11:36

• we built great big things made ungodly

  11:38

• technological advances explored the

  11:41

• universe cured diseases and we

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• cultivated the world's greatest artists

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• and the world's greatest economy we

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• reached for the stars acted like men we

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• aspired to intelligence we didn't

  11:59

• belittle it it didn't make us feel

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• inferior we didn't identify ourselves by

  12:01

• who we voted for in the last election

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• and we didn't scare so easy

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• [Music]

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• we were able to be all these things and

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• do all these things because we were

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• informed by great men men who were

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• revered first step in solving any

  12:22

• problem is recognizing there is one

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• [Music]

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• what's been wrong with me for 19 years

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• I've been a witness and I tell you I've

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• been complicit I love you Steve you know

  12:40

• how much I love that you don't care how

  12:45

• much money a person makes you care what

  12:49

• they make but what you make isn't

  12:51

• supposed to be the best part of you when

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• you're a father that's what's supposed

  12:57

• to be the best part of you and it's

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• caused me two decades of agony Steve

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• that it is for you the worst it's a

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• little thing it's a very small thing fix

  13:13

• it fix it now or you can contact me

  13:19

• that's my new job working anywhere I

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• want I'm sorry

  13:27

• well you know what actually just works

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• out better for me you know it is

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• slimmies the summer come to class we're

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• next nuttin you know well it's all right

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• to be angry

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• hey why should I be mad for saying at

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• least he said goodbye this time I just

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• wish I hadn't wasted my money buying a

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• stupid present I'm sorry I'd you know if

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• there was something that I hey you know

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• what

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• you ain't gonna do no no no hey you know

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• ain't like I'm still five years old you

  13:55

• know ain't like imma be sittin up every

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• night asking my mom when's daddy coming

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• home you know who needs him he wasn't

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• there to teach me how to shoot my first

  14:03

• basket but I learned didn't I hey I got

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• pretty damn good as to did not fulfill

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• got through my first day without him

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• right I learned how to drive I learn how

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• to shave I learned how to fight without

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• him I had 14 great birthdays without him

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• he never even sent me a damn car

  14:17

• I need them then and I'll need them now

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• we'll know you know what Uncle Phil I'm

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• gonna get through college without him

  14:30

• I'm gonna get a great job without him

  14:31

• I'm gonna marry me a beautiful honey and

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• I'm having me a whole bunch of kids I'll

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• be a better father than he ever was and

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• I sure as hell don't need him for that

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• cuz I ain't a damn thing he could ever

  14:40

• teach me about how to love my kids how

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• come you don't want me man you know

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• we're sitting here you and I and I get

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• couple of regular fellas

  15:09

• you do what you do I do what I gotta do

  15:10

• and now that we've been face to face

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• if I'm there I gotta put you away I

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• won't like it but I'll tell you

  15:23

• if it's between you and some poor

  15:29

• bastard whose wife you're gonna turn

  15:32

• into a widow brother you are going down

  15:34

• I'm sorry I don't want to be an emperor

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• that's not my business I don't want to

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• rule or conquer anyone

  15:55

• I should like to help everyone if

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• possible Jew Gentile black man white we

  15:58

• all want to help one another human

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• beings are like that we want to live by

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• each other's happiness not by each

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• other's misery we don't want to hate and

  16:07

• despise one another in this world is

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• room for everyone and the good earth is

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• rich and can provide for everyone the

  16:14

• way of life can be free and beautiful

  16:17

• but we have lost the way greed has

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• poisoned men's souls has barricaded the

  16:22

• world with hate has goose-stepped us

  16:25

• into misery and bloodshed

  16:27

• we have developed speed but we have shut

  16:28

• ourselves in machinery that gives

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• abundance has left us in want our

  16:33

• knowledge has made us cynical our

  16:36

• cleverness hard and unkind we think too

  16:37

• much and feel too little more than

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• machinery we need humanity more than

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• cleverness we need kindness and

  16:45

• gentleness without these qualities life

  16:47

• will be violent and all will be lost

  16:49

• the aeroplane and the radio have brought

  16:52

• us closer together the very nature of

  16:54

• these inventions cries out for the

  16:56

• goodness in men cries out for universal

  16:57

• brotherhood for the unity of us all even

  16:59

• now my voice is reaching millions

  17:02

• throughout the world millions of

  17:03

• despairing men women and children

  17:05

• victims of a system that makes men

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• torture and imprison innocent people

  17:09

• those who can hear me I say do not

  17:12

• despair the misery that is now upon us

  17:15

• is but the passing of greed the

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• bitterness of men who fear the way of

  17:19

• human progress the hate of men will pass

  17:21

• and dictators die and the power they

  17:24

• took from the people will return to the

  17:26

• people and so long as men die Liberty

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• will never perish

  17:31

• soldiers don't give yourselves to brutes

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• men who despise you enslave you who

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• regiment your lives tell you what to do

  17:39

• what to think of what to feel who drill

  17:41

• you diet you treat you like cattle use

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• you as cannon fodder don't give

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• yourselves to these unnatural men

  17:47

• machine men with machine minds and

  17:49

• machine hearts you are not machines you

  17:52

• are not cattle you are men you have the

  17:55

• love of humanity in your hearts

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• you don't hate only the unloved hate

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• the unloved and the unnatural soldiers

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• don't fight for slavery fight for

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• liberty in the seventeenth chapter of

  18:06

• st. Luke it is written the kingdom of

  18:08

• God is within man not one man nor a

  18:09

• group of men but in all men in you you

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• the people have the power the power to

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• create machines the power to create

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• happiness

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• you the people have the power to make

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• this life free and beautiful to make

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• this life a wonderful adventure then in

  18:23

• the name of democracy let us use that

  18:25

• power let us all unite let us fight for

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• a new world a decent world that will

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• give men a chance to work that will give

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• you the future and old age a security by

  18:35

• the promise of these things brutes have

  18:38

• risen to power but they lie they do not

  18:39

• fulfill that promise they never will

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• dictators free themselves but they

  18:44

• enslave the people

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• now let us fight to fulfill that promise

  18:47

• let us fight to free the world to do

  18:50

• away with national barriers to do away

  18:53

• with greed with hate and intolerance let

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• us fight for a world of reason a world

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• where science and progress will lead to

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• all men's happiness

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• soldiers in the name of democracy let us

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• all unite

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• you

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• you

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