Cages

 
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Alone on her own island 
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Listening to the news 
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Liberty heard things weren't going so well 
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So she got down from her tower 
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And booked a flight that very same hour 
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And went down to the border to help 


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And walking through the darkness 
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With the coyotes and the crickets 
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And a golden torch of peace held overhead 

She saw a family by the fence 
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Crying and holding hands 
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So she opened up her book and she read 
 

 
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Give me your tired 
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Your poor huddled masses 
                              
Yearning to live and breathe free 
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Well put them in cages, no matter their ages 
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And drop them at the bottom of the sea 

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Then she checked in all the churches 
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And she foraged all the farms 
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And she looked between cushions in the den 
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She worked all day and night 
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And didnt always get it right 
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And gave those ones tattoos to fit in 


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And watching from the bleachers 
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People cheered for execution 
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While they chanted about freedom and love 
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In one hand was the bible 
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And in the other the constitution 
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But they never read a word of either one 
 

 
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Give me your tired 
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Your poor huddled masses 
                              
Yearning to live and breathe free 
      A                      E 
Well put them in cages, no matter their ages 
                                  E 
And drop them at the bottom of the sea 

A E  E 
 

 
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And thats when Lady Liberty gathered for the press 
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And took the last brown baby from his mom 
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She looked right into the lens 
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And she held him up and said 
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This ones lazy and hes taking all your jobs 


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Then Lovely Lady Liberty 
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Closed her singing book 
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As that baby boy screamed for his dad 
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And Liberty felt a pain 
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Right between her heart and brain 
                   
And she said hes not American 
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So Im ok with that 
 

 
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Give me your tired 
     E 
Your poor huddled masses 
                              
Yearning to live and breathe free 
      A                      E 
Well put them in cages, no matter their ages 
                                  E 
And drop them at the bottom of the sea 

A E  E