| You, who speak of crowd control
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| Of karma or the punishment of God:
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| Do you fear the cages they are building
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| In Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas
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| While they’re giving ten to forty years to find a cure?
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| Do you pray each evening out of horror
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| Or of fear to the savage God
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| Whose bloody hand
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| Commands you now to die, alone?
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| Let’s not chat about Despair
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| Let’s not chat about Despair
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| Do you taste the presence of the living dead
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| While the skeleton beneath your open window
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| Waits with arms outstretched?
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| Do you spend each night in waiting
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| For the Devil’s little angels' cries
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| To burn you in your sleep?
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| Do you wait for miracles in small hotels
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| With seconal and compazine
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| Or for a ticket to the house of death in Amsterdam?
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| Let’s not chat about Despair
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| Let’s not chat about Despair
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| Do you wait in prison for the dreadful day
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| The office of the butcher comes to carry you away?
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| Do you wait for saviors or the paradise to come in laundry rooms, in toilets,
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| or in cadillacs?
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| Are you crucified beneath the life machines
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| With a shank inside your neck
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| And a head which blossoms like a basketball?
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| Let’s not chat about Despair
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| Let’s not chat about Despair
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| Do you tremble at the timid steps
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| Of crying, smiling faces who, in mourning
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| Now have come to pay their last respects?
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| In Kentucky Harry buys a round of beer
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| To celebrate the death of Billy Smith, the queer
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| Whose mother still must hide her face in fear
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| You who mix the words of torture, suicide and death
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| With scotch and soda at the bar
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| We’re all real decent people, aren’t we
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| But there’s no time left for talk:
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| Let’s not chat about Despair
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| Let’s not chat about Despair
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| Let’s not chat about Despair. |
| Please
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| Don’t chat about Despair |