How Did I Get Out Alive

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Down where the dullards rule; How do you keep a match lit in this hole?

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Up where the idiots lead; Scattering seeds.

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Well, we all had to stand for the Pledge. When bones were thrown we all fetched.

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But still, we were burning inside. How did I get out



  A-live?

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And we read here we are free; Sang "this land was made for you and me."

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Watched as the president swore; Called for war.

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We all tied yellow ribbons 'round necks. And we all had to stand for the

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Pledge.

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So smothered by national pride. How did I get out

  A-live?

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Back when the idiots ruled, I was a time bomb brought into school.

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It was there that we learned up from down; upside-down.

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It was there that we stood for the pledge. Where the living were raised by

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the dead.

       D               C          G         D         C

Led to slaughter, kept inside the lines. So how did I get out...

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By some rebel angel was I blessed? Or by some devil's minion led?

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One by one, we all choked on the lies. How did I get out alive?

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Hey, but I ain't no saint sent down to save

   You.

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If you struggle and fight, you just may get out,

    Too.

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Hey, but I ain't no saint sent down to save

   You.

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