With a pencil, with a pencil
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Than with a rifle, than with a cannon
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With a pencil, with a pencil
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All the rifles, all the cannons
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To fight for the right
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Fanatics, dictators
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Their militias, their prisons
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All the comics, the mockers
Their humor, their satires
That make you die laughing
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With a pencil, with a pencil
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Than with a rifle, than with a cannon
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With a pencil, with a pencil
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All the rifles, all the cannons
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No army will silence
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Inventors of refrains
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When they tell the whole world
Till they're out of breath
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That we must beat hate
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In every country, the artists
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Of a free and pacifist world
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Where billions of hands
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Brandish scrolls
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With a pencil, with a pencil
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Than with a rifle, than with a cannon
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With a pencil, with a pencil
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All the rifles, all the cannons
_____
With a pencil, with a pencil
_____
Than with a rifle, than with a cannon
_____
With a pencil, with a pencil
_____
All the rifles, all the cannons
_____
With a pencil, with a pencil
_____
Than with a rifle, than with a cannon
_____
With a pencil, with a pencil
_____
All the rifles, all the cannons
_____
With a pencil, with a pencil
_____
Than with a rifle, than with a cannon
_____
With a pencil, with a pencil
_____
All the rifles, all the cannons
_____
With a pencil, with a pencil
_____
Than with a rifle, than with a cannon
_____
With a pencil, with a pencil
_____
All the rifles, all the cannons