Tono: C
Introducción:
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Did they always ask you why you had to act so different?
C
So very different from all the other children
G F
What could you tell them?
C
When they went off to try to
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Criticize you and chastise you
C
Baptize you and then lobotomize you
G F
Isn't it true, ooh ooh that special school
G F
Turned you into a reverent fool
G F
Tell papa and the reverend too
G F
That they are ignorant and you disapprove
C
They would like to
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Turn a subject into a citizen
C
They will make you
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A patient if you take their medicine
G F
They sell you shit to make you sick
G F
That shit I sell will make you well
G
Take two of these and break the great Satan's spell
C
You know it's an emergency
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They call it a perverted dream
C
I call it an emerging scene
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I say, say, can't you see
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They came with their catechism
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Calling it your condition
C
I call that crass conditioning
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Oh, why ain't you listening?
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Reveal your hidden heritage
G F
Collect your true inheritance
G F
A veritable treasure chest opening
C
They would like to
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Turn a child into a Christian
C
I've been living without a God
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And these Christians don't know what they're missing
Am
Visionary dreams
Ripping through the seams
G C
When we gathered around the fire
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The devious and weak
Am
Make insidious schemes
G C
They want to water down the fire
F
Which is always burning
Am
Which is always burning
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There's witches always burning
C
Oh! The fire!
Am
You know the type of guy
Who doesn't like the light
G C
Don't want to stand beside the fire
Am
He shackles up your feet
Pushes you to your knees
G C
Forbids you to receive the fire
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But it is always burning
Am
We keep it always burning
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Keep it always burning
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Fire!
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Please, Believe me
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You gotta believe in a drum dream
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Even if seeing the death of a dumb dream
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Makes a man mean
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Mean, mean, real mean
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That what you've gotta be