Beaten Generation

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When you cast your eyes upon the skylines 
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Of this   once proud nation, 
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Can you sense the fear and the hatred 
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Growing in the hearts of its population 
 
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And our youth, oh youth, are being     seduced 
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By the greedy hands of politics   and half  truths 
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The beaten generation, the beaten gener-ation, 
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Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information. 
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The beaten generation, the beaten gener-ation, 
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Open your eyes, open your   imagina{tion}
 
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We're being sedated by the gasoline fumes 
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And hypnotised by the satellites 
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In-to believing what is good and what is right 
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You may be worshipping the temples of mammon 
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Or lost in the prisons of religion 
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But can you still walk back to happiness 
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When you've nowhere left to    run? 
 
	 
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If they send in the special police     
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To deliver us from liberty and keep us   from peace 
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Then won't the words sit ill upon their tongues 
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When they tell us justice is being done 
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And that freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun?