Key: C
Introduction:
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I see you clinging, stereotyping just to feel comfort, just to belong
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Desperate for meaning to make sense of your life
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Let me try to make you understand...
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You got it wrong
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You're not gonna catch me waving flags over my head
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Looking straight and standing tall
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I refuse to build the wall by adding my own bricks
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That separate us all
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I'd rather die than be a part of your pride
Verse
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This ain't the homeland they've written books on
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Never have been there, how would you know
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Following footsteps that will get you nowhere
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And living by some rules that were made up one hundred years ago
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You're not gonna find me digging through my family tree
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Just to find out who I am
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I don't need to know that I'm linked to some murderer
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To live on the same land
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I'd rather die than be a part of your pride than be a part of your pride
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Verse
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So it looks like I'll be here for a long time now
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Some things are better left mysteries
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Can't change the future when living in the past
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So do what you want and I'll decide my own history