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And I'd like to put it out
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But the blaze is bigger than me
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Time just keeps on ticking
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The world's on fire
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And I'd like to put it out
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But the blaze is bigger than me
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Time just keeps on ticking
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It's twenty twenty already
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And there are more of us
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And we want more and more
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Who doesn't honor the small isn't worthy of the big
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And what you don't know won't hurt you
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The clock strikes twelve
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Are my sins forgiven then?
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We'll tremble, the earth will bleed
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And whoever doesn't pay has to settle his debts
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I want a career, a garden, a family
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I want to taste truly clean air
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But the rich escape, they book a flight
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And it can be different, I know it can
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With faith and a will and a law and a plan
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I want a future, and you want it too
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Or you stay blind, 'cause where there's fire, there's smoke
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And I'd like to put it out
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But the blaze is bigger than me
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Time just keeps on ticking
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And you shut your eyes to it
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The world's on fire
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And I'd like to put it out
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But the blaze is bigger than me
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Time just keeps on ticking
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But I'm bigger than that
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We're dying so the urgency's higher than that
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It's sh*tty but let's hope for that
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That we'll make it in fits and starts and that
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We'll talk, especially with each other
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'Cause the crisis is here and The Hague is still there
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And that we do something, really do, you hear
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'Cause you've got cash for that
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And at Sinterklaas I'll put out my shoe for that
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And not for myself but for all of us
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I want to see in fifty shades of green
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I want to think and dare and do
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And I'd like to put it out
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But the blaze is bigger than me
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And I'm choking in the time, time ticking
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Time just keeps on ticking
_____
And you shut your eyes to it
_____
The world's on fire
_____
And I'd like to put it out
_____
But the blaze is bigger than me
_____
Time just keeps on ticking
_____
And you shut your eyes to it
_____
And I'd like to put it out
_____
But the blaze is bigger than me
_____
Time just keeps on ticking
_____
And you shut your eyes to it
_____
The world's on fire
_____
And I'd like to put it out
_____
But the blaze is bigger than me
_____
Time just keeps on ticking
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And you shut your eyes to it