HERE ON THE GROUND
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Outside the door are the empty, the poor
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Are the lives that are living no more
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Some of them grievers or broken believers
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Or used in some meaningless war
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Go see for yourself if you think it'll help
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But I just cannot go there no more
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Oh Lord, I will not go outside the door
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Down on the street there's a rhythm, a beat
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You get caught up, you'll never get free
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A humming of heat to a strumming of feet
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You forget who you wanted to be
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And under the madness an echoing sadness
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That whispers you'll never be free
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Oh Lord, I will not go down on the street
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Out into the city, the gruesome, the gritty
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The lovers, livers and lonely
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Away from my eyes in the thick fog, the cries
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Of the bleeding, broken and breaking
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Your name there is nothing, the street signs are bluffing
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They'll put you wherever they please
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Oh Lord, I will not go into the city
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I’m already jaded
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Already I'm faded
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There's nothing to learn or to know
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Oh Lord, I will not go
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Under the bridge there, the shadowy ridge there
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That hides and is keeping us hid
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Where nothing is growing nor sunlight is showing
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Or shining on all that we did
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And the rumble of cars that goes bellowing past
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They're just running away with the wind
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Oh Lord, I will not go under the bridge
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Out into the battle, they lead you like cattle
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And even they got their own laws
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You won’t be locked up there, nor shot or shocked up there
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For shooting a man to the floor
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They train you and break you, and re-educate you
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But won’t tell you why or what for
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Oh Lord, I will not go into the war
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Up into the sky where the great engines fly
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Where they throw you and roll you like dice
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We've conquered the moon with explosions and fumes
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We have conquered the universe high
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But looking back down there's a reasoning sound
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That says nobody gets out alive
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Oh Lord, I will not go into sky
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There's no one around
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Just the beckoning sound
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And there's no room to dream or to grow
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Oh Lord, I will not go (I will not go)
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Here on the ground we are lost, we are found
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We are lonely, we're spinning around
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Away from the crowds and the armies of clowns
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Away from the carnival sounds
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And out of the deep where the tectonic sleeps
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And darkness will follow you down
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Oh Lord, just let me stay here on the ground
