Key: G
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As war drums beat in Babylon
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Cinnamon Girl starts 2 pray
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I'd never heard a prayer like this one
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Never before that day
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Tearful words of love 4 people she had never met before
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Asking God 2 grant them mercy in this phase of holy war
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Cinnamon Girl
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Cinnamon Girl
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Cinnamon Girl of mixed heritage
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Never knew the meaning of color lines
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911 turned that all around
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When she got accused of this crime
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So began the mass illusion, war on terror, alibi
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What's the use when the god of confusion keeps on telling the same lie?
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Cinnamon Girl
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Cinnamon Girl
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Don't cry, don't shed no tears
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One lie won't make us fear
Cuz we know how this movie's ending
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Cinnamon Girl
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Cinnamon Girl
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As war drums beat in Babylon
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And scorch the blood red sky
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Militants bomb the foreign gun
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Both sides, children die
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Cinnamon Girl opens the book she knows will settle all the scores
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Then she prays after the war that there will not be any more
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Cinnamon Girl
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Cinnamon Girl
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Cinnamon Girl
Don't worry, baby, it's gon' be alright, yeah
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Cinnamon Girl