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For Broken Ear Tab

by Chuck Ragan


intro:,

Where are the ones who carry their guns
       
To the far away lands with the blackened suns
         
From the smoke and narrow minds
                     
The half-truth trails and holy lies
      
Of an empty heart and overflowing mouth
  
A plastic smile and a coward’s frown

Repercussions come around
                                           
When the word named free burns to the ground somehow
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Where are the deaf and where are the dumb
         
From the side of the tracks
    
Where no reason comes from
        
And the tables never bare
                     
The water runs and mamas always there
        
So who separates the world from the start
           
Where such words would come and such thoughts would cause
  
A shot heard round the world
                
Or just as sad never heard at all
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So down, down, down like a ball of flames
                                      
To the rotten core filling up with names of hypocrites.
       
What a massive list
                
Don’t exclude yourself from it
                      
Don’t compromise administration lies
                   
Carried out and covered up with time
                   
Carried out and turned around to shine
                       
Or high on a pedestal of broken lives
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Compassion speaks loud for itself
         
Falls on broken ears and off the value shelf
                               
Into the dirt left to the wind
                 
Comin up strong ready to begin
   
To obliterate the word from the start
            
Where such ideas come and such ideas cause
  
A spark that’ll set a blaze
                              
And leave the embers red until the end of days
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So down, down, down like a ball of flames
                                      
To the rotten core filling up with names of hypocrites.
       
What a massive list
                
Don’t exclude yourself from it
                      
Don’t compromise administration lies
                   
Carried out and covered up with time
                   
Carried out and turned around to shine
                       
Or high on a pedestal of broken lives
-

Where are the ones who carry their guns
       
To the far away lands with the blackened suns
         
From the smoke and narrow minds
                     
The half-truth trails and holy lies
      
Of an empty heart and overflowing mouth
  
A plastic smile and a coward’s frown

Repercussions come around
                                           
When the word named free burns to the ground somehow