| In my dream, children sing
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| A song of love for every boy and girl
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| The sky is blue and fields are green
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| And laughter is the language of the world
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| Then I wake and all I see
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| Is a world full of people in need
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| Tell me why (why) does it have to be like this?
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| Tell me why (why) is there something I have missed?
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| Tell me why (why) 'cause I don’t understand
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| When so many need somebody
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| We don’t give a helping hand
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| Tell me why?
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| Everyday I ask myself
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| What will I have to do to be a man?
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| Do I have to stand a fight
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| To prove to everybody who I am?
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| Is that what my life is for
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| To waste in a world full of war?
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| Tell me why (why) does it have to be like this?
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| Tell me why (why) is there something I have missed?
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| Tell me why (why) 'cause I don’t understand
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| When so many need somebody
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| We don’t give a helping hand
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| Tell me why?
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| (children)tell me why?(Declan)tell me why?
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| (children)tell me why?(Declan)tell me why?
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| (together) just tell me why, why, why?
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| Tell me why (why) does it have to be like this?
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| Tell me why (why) is there something I have missed?
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| Tell me why (why) 'cause I don’t understand
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| When so many need somebody
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| We don’t give a helping hand
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| Tell me why?
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| (why, why, does the tiger run)
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| Tell me why (why, why do we shoot the gun)
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| Tell me why (why, why do we never learn)
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| Can someone tell us why we let the forest burn?
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| (why, why do we say we care)
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| Tell me why (why, why do we stand and stare)
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| Tell me why (why, why do the dolphin cry)
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| Can some one tell us why we let the ocean die?
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| (why, why if we’re all the same)
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| Tell me why (why, why do we pass the blame)
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| Tell me why (why, why does it never end)
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| Can some one tell us why we cannot just be friends?
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| (why, why do we close our eyes?)
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| (why, why do the greedy lie?)
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| (why, why do we fight for land?)
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| (can someone tell us why 'cause we don’t understand?)
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| (why, why?) |