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Patti Smith
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hello friend I've come a-calling
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passively stationed
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active patrol
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sliding in at high noon like some reluctant sheriff
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not want to get involved in it all
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who stands guard for each other
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why must we guard anything at all
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anything at all
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from the earth's four corners the people are calling
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forming equations but the questions are hard
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all men are brothers killing each other
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and mother earth is wringing in wonder
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who stands guard for each other
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why must we guard anything at all
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anything at all
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whirl away now
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whirl away now
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whirl away now
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whirl away
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there's a cross on the road
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there's a great mill turning
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some seeking answers
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some born to dancers
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you can hold on the blade and turn around forever
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be flung into space into another kind of grace
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who stands guard for each other
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why must we guard anything at all
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anything at all
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whirl away now
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whirl away now
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whirl away now
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whirl away
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whirl away now
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whirl away now
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whirl away now
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whirl away
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some giveth their hand
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some giveth their land
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some giveth their life
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you lay in the fields of grain
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the staff of life all around you
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but yet you, you will cut someone down for their possessions
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some material thing
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and our children are being blown away like wishes in the wind
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for the sake of their coat
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or the colors of their coat
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or the color of their skin
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or the name on their shoes
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and the mother cries "Why they taken my son?"
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and the father wonders "Are they taking my boy?"
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he extended his hand
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he gave them his land
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he gave them his bread
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he gave them his heart
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said hello friend
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hello friend
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hello friend
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hello friend.
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hello friend
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