The New Wild West

	  		  
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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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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, 
                                                      
 
    the only thing left it appears is  
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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.