@drai
Some people apparently:
What is, is, shut up, and let us exploit...
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"We didn't start the fire"
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on
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-Billy Joel, 1989
Never knew people saw it as something to aspire to/acceptable
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=xbSnRVspDb8
I much prefer this:
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You would never know
What you could ever be
If you never try
You would never see
Stayed in Africa
Where you never leave
So there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships
Were no misery
Call me crazy, or isn't he?
See I fell asleep and I had a dream
It was all black everything
Uh, and we ain't get exploited
White man ain't feared so he did not destroy it
We ain't work for free, see they had to employ it
Built it up together so we equally appointed
First 400 years, see we actually enjoyed it
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-Lupe Fiasco, Lasers 2011
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=I7kYUWElw5w&si=VXt7E-sx9u-fnAnf