Ani DeFranco fans may be interested in hearing this piece.<
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Those with Conservative leanings and burst of anger towards liberal tree huggers? Don't bother. <
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A very small segment of this piece is below in the quote:<
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cuz take away our playstations<
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and we are a third world nation<
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under the thumb of some blue blood royal son<
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who stole the oval office and that phony election<
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i mean<
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it don't take a weatherman<
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to look around and see the weather<
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jeb said he'd deliver florida, folks<
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and boy did he ever<
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and we hold these truths to be self evident:<
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#1 george w. bush is not president<
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#2 america is not a true democracy<
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#3 the media is not fooling me<
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cuz i am a poem heeding hyper-distillation<
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i've got no room for a lie so verbose<
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i'm looking out over my whole human family<
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and i'm raising my glass in a toast<
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here's to our last drink of fossil fuels<
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let us vow to get off of this sauce<
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shoo away the swarms of commuter planes<
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and find that train ticket we lost<
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cuz once upon a time the line followed the river<
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and peeked into all the backyards<
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and the laundry was waving<
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the graffiti was teasing us<
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from
ick walls and
idges<
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we were rolling over ridges<
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through valleys<
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under stars<
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i dream of touring like duke ellington<
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in my own railroad car<
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i dream of waiting on the tall blonde wooden benches<
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in a grand station aglow with grace<
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and then standing out on the platform<
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and feeling the air on my face<
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give back the night its distant whistle<
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give the darkness back its soul<
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give the big oil companies the finger finally<
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and relearn how to rock-n-roll<
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yes, the lessons are all around us and a change is waiting there<
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so it's time to pick through the rubble, clean the streets<
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and clear the air<
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get our government to pull its big dick out of the sand<
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of someone else's desert<
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put it back in its pants<
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and quit the hypocritical chants of<
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freedom forever<
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full text of the poem here: <
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http://www.righteousbabe.com/ani...vident.asp<
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The mp3 here:<
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http://www.righteousbabe.com/self_evident.mp3 <i></i>