Gratitude And Thanks

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I asked a student of higher schooling 
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He said he didn’t care 
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When I asked about the sixties 
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They simply said long hair 
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Saw a child getting programmed 
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Getting programmed when she wakes 
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And I heard a raving elder 
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Cursing 20 years too late 
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Oh how the bastards screwed me 
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 Son, life’s too short to wait 
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And then the students 
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Of higher schooling 
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Hid more pills inside his plate 
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So I’d like to send gratitude 

And thanks 
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 To those who had the courage 
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To defy the mighty ranks 
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Send it to the students 
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Who waved the banners 
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Who held flowers up to the tanks 
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And to the ones who are 
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Still fighting 
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Yes all my gratitude 
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And all my thanks 


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So as you sit baked and hammered 
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So grateful to be dead 
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Saying freedom’s here to chill out 
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So sit and rest your head 
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Think of those who fought 
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For your right 
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The path you walk, they paved 
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And those who fought for their right 
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To carry until today 
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When it was they who fed the hungry, 
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Stormed the pentagon for peace 
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While the army rounded strangers up 
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made them instant police 
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They who made a union, 
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dodged the draft, 
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and filled the jails 
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And spread a message of unity 
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Across the nation’s rails 
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And said we’re destroying 
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The house that Man have built 
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Kicking the doors and pulling nails 
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And you have the nerve to tell me 
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 That everyone has failed 
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No, you should send 
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 Your gratitude and thanks 
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 To those who had the courage 
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To defy the mighty ranks 
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Send it to the students 
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Who waved the banners 
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Who held flowers up to the tanks 
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And to the ones who are 
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Still fighting 
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Yes all my gratitude  
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And all my thanks 

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I'd like to send out a 
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Head, help, heart, and hand 
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To those who had the courage 
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To reach and rise and stand 
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Send it to the lovers 
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And the fighters 
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To those who stood up and still stand 
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Those who unchained their wrist 
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And clenched their fist 
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Both here and in faraway lands 

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