Too Much Rope
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When the sleigh is heavy, and the timberwolves are getting bold,
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You look at your companions and test the water of their friendship
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With your toe.
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And they significantly edge closer to the gold...
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Each man has his price, Bob...and yours was pretty low.
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Now history is short, the sun is just a minor star.
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And the poor man sells his kidneys in some colonial bazaar
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Que sera sera, is that your new Ferrari car?
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Nice... but I think I'll wait for the F-fifty
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You don't have to be a Jew...to disapprove of murder
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Tears burn my eyes;
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Muslim or Christian, Mullah or Pope,
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Preacher or poet, who was it wrote, "Give any one species
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Too much rope and they'll fuck it up?
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Last night on TV, a Vietnam vet took his beard and his pain
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And his alienation of 20 years...back to Asia again.
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Sees the monsters they made in formaldehyde floating 'round.
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Meets a gook on a bike...a good enough guy,
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With the same soldier's eyes.
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What does it mean, this tear-jerking scene beamed into my home?
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That it moves me so much, why all the fuss?
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It's only two humans being...it's only... two humans being;
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Tears burn in my eyes...what does it mean? This tender TV?
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This tear-jerking scene beamed into my home?
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And you don't have to be a Jew to disapprove of murder
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Tears burn my eyes....Muslim or Christian, Mullah or Pope,
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Preacher or poet, who was it wrote:
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"Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up?”
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