Key: D
Introduction:
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1. You see the ghost of the buffalo moving both fierce and slow
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like glittering prophesies, on the edge of the horizon.
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As you drive glittering highways and beaten-up byways,
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that straddle and girdle our great and many-faced nation.
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You see the lambs in the ghettos who worship their Gepettos,
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believing in, never seeing, the strings they think bind them.
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So we write to our congressmen with bleeding pens of the sorrow within,
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and in return, they just send tickets to the latest Tom Hanks show.
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Welcome to the new Wild West, each man for himself.
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Civilized steeples, and lonely people, welcome to the new Wild West.
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2. There are so many factions and cue-card reactions,
it's hard to keep clear the possibilities here,
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'cause there's no force to unite them.
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Privilege has ruled for thousands of years,
wars have been fought with bibles and tears,
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yet liberation can't deny the temptation, soon becomes the oppressor.
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Show me a leader who's fit to lead,
who don't sow his seed in anything wounded enough to breed,
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because after all, what fun is power, if you can't act like a rock star?
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Welcome to the new Wild West, each man for himself.
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Civilized steeples, and lonely people, welcome to the new - -
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La la da da, la la la la da da. (2x)
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3. As for me, I've been petty, oh, and unkind, but I know my own mind,
and since it seems clear there's no one leading us here,
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to task ourselves to be better each time, than those before us.
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We'll be an army of thieves, of self-freed slaves,
of mild-mannered maids, we'll fight with whispers and blades,
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so get ready, a new day is dawning
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Welcome to the new Wild West, each man for himself.
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A nation of civilized steeples, and lonely people,
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welcome to the new Wild West.