Bad Religion
Punk Rock Song
The Gray Race (1996)

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Have you been to the desert? Have you walked with the dead?
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There's a hundred thousand children being killed for their bread

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  And the figures don't lie, they speak of human disease
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  But we do what we want and we think what we please

Have you lived the experience? Have you witnessed the plague?
People making babies sometimes just to escape

  In this land of competition the compassion is gone
  Yet we ignore the needy and we keep pushing on

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       Keep pushing on

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    This is just a punk rock song
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    Written for the people who can see something's wrong
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    Like ants in a colony we do our share
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    But there's so many other fuckin' insects out there

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    And this is just a punk rock song

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Have you visited the quagmire? Have you swam in the shit?
The party convention and the real politic

  The faces always different, the rhetoric the same
  But we swallow it all, and we see nothing change

  Nothing has changed

    This is just a punk rock song
    Written for the people who can see something's wrong
    Like workers in a factory we do our share
    But there's so many other fuckin' robots out there

    And this is just a punk rock song

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Ten million dollars on a losing campaign
Twenty million starving and writhing in pain
Big strong people unwilling to give
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Small in vision and perspective...

  One in five kids below the poverty line
  One population runnin' out of time

  Runnin' out of time

    Refrain 1

  These figures don't lie they speak of human disease
  But we do what we want and we think what we please

  One in five kids below the poverty line
  One population runnin' out of time

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    This is just a punk rock song  x 2

    C♯5     A5     E5!  G♯5! C♯5!
    This is just a punk rock song