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The Great Depression

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We were the Reagan kids
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Our heroes didn't work like our daddies did
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They dazzled us with TV through sleepy lids
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We followed hulking maniacs to prozac nation
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"You can be anything, just get your education"
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We were good Christian kids
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We went to church on sunday mornings like mama did
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Teenage love made us feel guilty and so we hid
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Under those overpasses on summer nights
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We'd tear each other's clothes off
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Then we roared right through our twenties
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Never bargained for a crash
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Watched our hollow dreams get buried
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Under heaps of plastic trash
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Broken promises to children leaving idelible impressions
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Welcome to the great depression
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We were our father's sons
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Playing war on weekend days with our plastic guns
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Catching up with who we were through the reruns
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"Eat your vitamins and say your prayers
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You'll become doctors, lawyers and millionairs"
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We were misguided kids
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Tried to fuck our way through such a distorted world
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Confusing love and sex and plastic with pearls
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"Get what you can for yourself, leave the rest behind"
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It's freedom forever 'til your card gets declined
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Then we roared right through our twenties
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Never bargained for a crash
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Watched our hollow dreams get buried
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Under heaps of plastic trash
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Broken promises to children leaving idelible impressions
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Welcome to the great depression
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Welcome to the great depression

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Did he die for your sins?
Did he leave us for dead?
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If you wanted us safe why would you fuck with our heads?
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The factory's gone, the loans are foreclosed
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But there's some places left that still remind me of home

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There's some places left that still remind me of home

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Just give me one place left that reminds me of home
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The lifeboat is looking pretty full
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If you find some room reach out and give me a pull
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The way we learned to live is fading fast
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I guess we never bargained for a crash
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I guess we never bargained for a crash
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I know we never bargained for a crash