If you were born in a housing project
I dedicate this poem to you
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Hoping that deep in your dull eyes
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You can see a little blade of grass
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And man, you gotta see things clearly
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It's high time to hit pause
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To swap this gloomy life
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For the perfume of a rose
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It's the anthem of our countryside
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Of our rivers, of our mountains
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Of life, man, of the animal world
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Shout it real loud, wear out your vocal cords
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No job, no diplomas
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Everywhere the same dead-end smell
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Nothing fires up your neurons anymore
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Not even the sh*t you pack into your cones
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Go look elsewhere, nothing holds you back
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Hurry up and make something with your hands
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Don't look back, there's nothing for you here
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And be the first to sing this refrain
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It's the anthem of our countryside
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Of our rivers, of our mountains
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Of life, man, of the animal world
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Shout it real loud, wear out your vocal cords
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Sit down by a river
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Listen to the water flowing over the earth
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Tell yourself that at the end, hey, there's the sea
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And that, that ain't anything short-lived
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You'll then understand you're nothing
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Like the one before you, like, like the one who's coming
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That the liquid running through your hands
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Will keep you alive till tomorrow morning
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It's the anthem of our countryside
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Of our rivers, of our mountains
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Of life, man, of the animal world
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Shout it real loud, wear out your vocal cords
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Sit down next to an old oak
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And compare it to the human race
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The oxygen and shade it brings you
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Does it deserve the axe blows that bleed it?
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Lift your head, look at its leaves
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You might see a squirrel
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Staring at you in all its pride
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Its home's right there, you're on the doorstep
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It's the anthem of our countryside
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Of our rivers, of our mountains
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Of life, man, of the animal world
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Shout it real loud, wear out your vocal cords
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Shout it real loud, wear out your vocal cords
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Maybe I'm talking just to talk
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Maybe when you listen you feel like laughing
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But if concrete is your future
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Tell yourself it's the forest that lets you breathe
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I'd like, for all the animals
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For you to catch the message in my words
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Because a patch of earth, a stalk of reed
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Will feed the growth of your kids
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Will feed the growth of your kids
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It's the anthem of our countryside
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Of our rivers, of our mountains
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Of life, man, of the animal world
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Shout it real loud, wear out your vocal cords
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It's the anthem of our countryside
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Of our rivers, of our mountains
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Of life, man, of the animal world
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Shout it real loud, wear out your vocal cords, hey