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Red, White and Blue....
- Celebration of one nations glory.
- Hundreds of people all swarmed together.
- They watch explosions of colorful fury.
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- As each explosion comes to its end,
- I watch the sparks float down again.
- Like little tiny fairies.
- I really wonder,
- about fireworks and freedom.
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- Haven't they always gone hand in hand....
- fireworks, and freedom?
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- Look around!
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- One woman stands in the masses,
- and looks away long enough to wonder.
- Look around at all the carefree children,
- and deep down inside she knows...
- that one out of six are being fucked by their fathers.
- This is what our fore-fathers fought for?
- So, great-grandchildren could live in fear?
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- One woman stands alone in the masses,
- and looks away...at the eyes of her sisters.
- And she wondered to herself how many were living with the bruises.
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- In the glow of a white explosion..
- She saw a sister who had taken a blow...
- She knew that she was not all alone...
- Is this what our fore-fathers fought for?
- For women to be mistreated?
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- And she looked at her brothers,
- and tried not to believe that they really are not monsters.
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- Monsters who use, abuse...and throw away....
- ...maybe some of them....really can care....
- Who's fucking? Who's beating? And who's just not so blatant?
- Why if they love their daughters so much do they teach them to be so
complacent?
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- One woman stands alone in the masses,
- she watches the pink and purple explosions...
- and sighs to herself..
- This is what our fore-fathers fought for?
- and the fireworks...they stand for the war!
- They fought for our freedoms....
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- Yet, this is what we have..
- One mans dream leads to another subjugation...
- Where are the freedoms, that is each persons right?
- And why does society pretend that everything is all right?
- It's too ugly to look at,
- so we put it all out of sight?
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- This one woman has dared to open her eyes.
- And because she refuses to close them,
- she will pay the price.
- But, she is the doer...
- and she likes to stand in the middle
- and take the opportunity to shout,
- "Remember people, your freedoms...
- "Remember why you are here...
- "Remember the children, for they need not live in fear.
- "Remember the woman who cannot be owned...
- "Remember your brother, and teach him how to care....
- "Take your thoughts back to the basics,
- "Remember everyone’s true basic freedoms...
- "To Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness..."
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