| One day I’d like to be rich and famous
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| Maybe be funny like Andy and Amos
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| Be on TV, and sing like Stevie
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| And have a girl who’d never leave me
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| But I’d really like a place where there could be no war
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| A bright and shiny world where there ain’t no poor
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| Where there’s opportunity, peace and unity
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| Where people can be what they want to be
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| And where Apartheid can never happen again
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| Where people don’t judge you by the color of your skin
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| Where I hold your hand, and you hold mine
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| Where a helpful hand is never hard to find
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| A place Where people care, where no one can bear
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| When someone’s hungry with nothing there
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| Where the heart is never cold, the young are never needy
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| The old are never poor, and the rich are never greedy
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| So bring the power to the people, the people to the power
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| Cause now is the time, this is the hour
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| To stop thinking about war, start thinking 'bout peace
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| So on this life, we can get another lease
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| With a lesson to learn, a new direction to turn
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| So we can take it to the sky where we belong
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| Cause for too long, we’ve been too wrong
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| Yeah we got the right notes but we play the wrong song
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| Stop thinking with your wallet, and think with your mind
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| So we can move ahead, instead of behind
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| We got people selling drugs, people are dyin'
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| Politicians talking, and you know they’re lying
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| Taxes for the poor, none for the rich
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| People starving in America, now ain’t that a bummer
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| Now we got missles on the ground, lasers in space
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| Underground shelters just in case
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| That something goes boom, certain doom cause in our hearts we didn’t make
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| enough room
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| For the love, it comes from up above, let’s stop talking war and offer the dove
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| Cause when it’s done it’s over, when it’s over it’s done
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| We look back at the wars, and see that nobody won
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| It’s time to make a better life for our daughters and our sons
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| Or life will be a blast, pardon the pun |