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[00:28.02]The day that civil glory dismembered my civility
[00:32.56]I could have parted ribs and flesh like a different kind of Red Sea,
[00:36.81]Drowned the ancient east in western progress,
[00:40.33]Custom and the least of all our pride and sentiments.
[00:44.92]Which turned out to be the closest thing to a fashion trend
[00:49.55]That's ever been put on trial.
[00:51.96]Which turned out to be the closest thing to a fashion trend
[00:56.62]That's ever been put on trial.
[00:58.78]The rest was cast off as denial of statehood and mastery;
[01:08.03]The ultimate form of treason is the treacherous use of reason,
[01:15.54]The treacherous use.
[01:33.73]Employed by the bastard sons of American fore-fathers who keep this fire burning
[01:38.36]With the flesh of their would-be American daughters, daughters, daughters, daughters!
[01:47.51]What will happen to our children when the least of us pass on?
[01:54.27]Us who fought the monsters of our country's crowded closet,
[01:57.76]Us who dropped the bombs on goodness when we saw it wasn't flawless.
[02:02.12]Us whose youthful life was hostage to what harm did,
[02:11.14]Us who fought the hardest to be swept under the carpet.
[02:30.96]And I'm still a cigarette softly smoking on the edge of a metal ashtray.
[02:43.36]I begged this place to let me burn, and it whispered, "burn away".
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