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WE'RE MAKING REAL PROGRESS

Let's fuck up the planet

while we've still got time.

   We'll charge to stare in the abyss

    people would pay their dime.

So let's fuck up the planet

how long is anybody's guess,

    so let's big up the problem

    and never quite confess.

Poverty can go to the back of the queue

along with love and such things

 

    so let's fuck up the planet

    there might ...

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the future

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