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Introduction:
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Is it too much to ask to open up your heart
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For we can know no peace while we're worlds
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apart
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I think the very key to to all this starts
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Is to break down each wall that we built
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'round ideas so ridgid, so sharp
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Yes its time for a change, there can be no more
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We can't dig our heads in the sand and
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pretend like generations before
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The time is now to grow and its time to heal
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So we must all stand and demand with the
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strength of vanadium steel
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Help me shake these branches
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Watch the leaves fall down
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See it in their faces
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That change is comin round
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Turn this American Nightmare into an
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American Dream
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We can use our voices til we've all been heard
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Show them with our choices
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And live by our own words
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Change this American Nightmare into an
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American Dream
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If you want to know how this all could end
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Well just look back in time and you'll find
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What's happening now happened then
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It's time we all wake up its time that We See
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That where there's no justice there's no
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chance that we can be free
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We can love our brother the way that we all should
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Heal the scars that bind, use the pain for something good
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Change this American nightmare
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Into an American dream
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We can use our voices til we've all been heard
Em
Show them with our choices
Em
And live by our own words
Bm F#m
Change this American Nightmare into an
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American Dream
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So Help me shake these branches
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Watch the leaves fall down
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See it in their faces
Em
That change is comin round
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Change this American Nightmare into an
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American Dream
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Let's wake up from this American Nightmare
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To live the American Deam