The New Wild West

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You see the ghosts of the buffalo

Moving both fierce and slow
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Like glittering prophesies

On the edge of the horizon
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As you drive glittering highways

And beaten-up by-ways
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That straddle and girdle

A great and many-faced nation
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You see lambs in the ghettos

Who worship their Gepettos
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Believing in, though never seeing

The strings they think bind them
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So you write to our congressmen

With bleeding pens
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Of the sorrow within

And in return they just send
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Tickets to the latest Tom Hanks show


[Chorus]
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Welcome to the new wild west
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Each man for himself
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Civilized steeples
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And lonely people
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Welcome to the new wild west


[Verse 2]
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There are so many factions

And cue-card reactions
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It's hard to keep clear

The possibilities here
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'Cause there's no force to unite them
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Privilege has ruled for thousands of years

Wars have been fought with bibles and tears
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Yet liberation can't deny the temptation
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And soon becomes the oppressor
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Show me a leader who's fit to lead

Who don't sow his seed in anything

Wounded enough to breed

Because after all what fun is power
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If you can't act like a rock star?


[Chorus]
 F             G         Dm
Welcome to the new wild west
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Each man for himself
F          G
Civilized steeples
      C      G
And lonely people
 F              G
Welcome to the new-


[Instrumental]
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La la da da, la la la la da da x4


[Verse 3]
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See me, I've been cruel

I've been petty and unkind
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But I know my own mind

And since it seems clear
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There's no one leading us here

The only thing left it appears
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Is to task ourselves to be better each time

Then those before us
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We'll be an army of theives

Of self-freed slaves
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Of mild-mannered maids

We'll fight with whispers and blades
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So get ready, a new day is dawning


[Chorus]
 F             G         Dm
Welcome to the new wild west
 F    G           D
Each man for himself
F          G
Civilized steeples
      C      G
And lonely people
 F             G         Dm
Welcome to the new wild west