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Why Can't We?

 

Why can't we find a place

Where no rats are in the race

 

Where only idle things prevail

Where, together, we could sail

 

Upstream from all the madness

So far from all the sadness 

 

Serenely would it lead

To a place where we are freed

 

To be as naked as at birth

Just us and Mother Earth

 

There, we'll dig ourselves a hole

And bury deep our sou...

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