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HOW CAN YOU SLEEP
HOW CAN YOU SLEEP I spoke for the world and they denied me But they discussed the curl of my hair He who saved the great lakes died of cancer I don’t suppose justice has ever been fair The last thing we love is the first thing we kill The snow once fell clean and purled She said make love to me like you mean it Before you take us all to the end of the world How can you sleep? How can you sleep? How can you sleep? In a place I found a great beauty Where they built the things nobody needs They stole it until there was nothing I am the poet and I speak for the trees And I once gave my children a rainbow They were blind to it looking for gold We once thought those big bombs would kill us Man you keep taking us to the end of the world How can you sleep? How can you sleep? How can you sleep? We’re guilty in our own self-importance They got theirs she got hers he got his Seas will rise mountains will roar Trees shall fall that have stood a thousand years As the last witness is silenced Our destiny DNA is uncurled We’ll drag everything down with us when we go You keep taking us to the end of the world How can you sleep? How can you sleep? How can you sleep? View All Comments Comments (1)
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