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He says we all must live because we all must die,
How free is a bird to fall out of the sky,
If it’s real,
You have to kill,
Dogma has its view and beauty has its day,
Peace whispers its tune and then violence has its say,
If you live,
You have to give.

Reinvent the system; put the bait into the trap,
Serve it into slices; draw new lines upon the map,
It don’t really matter if you don’t know what it’s for,
Freedom is as good excuse as any for a war.

We just want what’s right can’t figure out what’s wrong,
And why should anybody have to wait this long,
Die for love,
Shoot down the dove,
Could the truth be this ironic; we’ll die for the right to live,
Have to fight to keep the peace; have to take just to learn how to give,
Friend or foe,
We’ll never know.

Reinvent the system put the bait into the trap,
Serve it into slices draw new lines upon the map,
It don’t really matter if you don’t know what it’s for,
Freedom is as good excuse as any for a war.

How much freedom does it really take,
For a person to walk their own way,
Government orders when it ought to serve,
But we get the government we deserve,
If we could live in peace we wouldn’t need the laws,
If we could live with reason we wouldn’t die for a cause.

Let's take the freedom donors; throw them all in jail,
Their wolf cry of liberation; they make life a living hell,
You have to see,
To really be free,
Let's take the blinders off justice so he can look the people in the face,
Is a concept more precious than the spice of the human race,
It’s your right,
Not to fight.

Reinvent the system put the bait into the trap,
Serve it into slices draw new lines upon the map,
It don’t really matter if you don’t know what it’s for,
Freedom is as good excuse as any for a war.

Feb. 93

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from Troubleshooting the Cosmos, released March 31, 1993

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