My Generation- Spoonboy
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well the authorities called me up, and said "you may well end up in prison,"
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i said "i may well, but you know i'll run away before then."
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they said "you know we'll catch you," i said, "nah, you wouldn't know where to start,
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you may well put me in prison, but you won't ever touch my heart."
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my heart, my heart, my heart, my heaart, my heart, my heart, my heart, my heart, my heart.
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they say that kids my age think that they're invincible,
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well that seems foolish, but i still know i'll never die,
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and it seems to be invincible all you've got to do is stay alive,
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and i can do that on my own terms, stay out the conversation,
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because your laws mean shit to me,
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they're just arbirtrary guidelines of absolutist ideology,
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and it seems to me when you're the ones out killing in the streets,
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you've got no right to tell me what to do if i wanna be free.
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because i'm not your property.
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nah, i belong to me.
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they say my generation don't stand up for what we believe in,
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i think it's all cuz we've been told just what to do right from the start,
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don't break the guidelines given, believe in television,
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well we still know what we believe when it comes pouring out our hearts.
[("our hearts") over intro twice to end]
