|  chinatown_girl
 Oyster Bay, NY
 age: 19
 
 
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 Universal Struggle by Rising Sun
 
 
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                |  chinatown_girl
 Oyster Bay, NY
 age: 19
 
 
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 The Life - Mystic
 
 Come on, come on
 Huh huh, yeah
 Feel good, don't it?
 
 This is for warm days that drift away
 While the sun sets and the ghettos play
 Long nights on a hot summers block
 Where you sip your brew and never touch your Glock
 
 This is for eyes
 That cry like yours
 And learn to smile again
 And rise above the pain
 
 This is for you and your crew
 The ones thats true
 Who'll always love you
 No matter what you do
 
 Chorus 1:
 'Cause its the life, the life, the life (the life, the life)
 its the life, the life, the life, (life)
 its the life, the life, the life (your life, your life)
 its the life, your life, my life, (life)
 
 This is for soldiers who bust they guns
 In the name of freedom not the game of fun
 True queens who raise they kids
 to implement the knowledge, and show 'em how to live
 This is for those who stand in line to feed their babies
 While we're running out of time
 
 This is for the injustice, behind bars
 Our lovers, our leaders, our people, yeah...
 
 Chorus 2:
 'Cause its the life, the life, the life (the life, the life)
 its the life, the life, the life, (life)
 its the life, the life, the life (my life, my life)
 its the life, your life, my life, (our lives)
 
 Don't let 'em mis-misguide you
 They'll have you actin' like the sun dont shine
 And the sky ain't never blue
 But you know and i know its all about survival
 The struggle of our people is like death unrivaled
 For politicians they was never in control
 its deeper than that a true battle for the soul
 What they want is to bring us to our knees
 So my people guard your life by any means
 
 This is for those who know we all gon die
 And its set up that way by an infinite power
 Those who know, that feel the chains
 In the belly of the beast and mental strain
 This is for those who have their own fallen angels
 Trying to find their way home
 This is for everybody (everybody), and anybody so (anybody) slight
 
 Chorus 1
 
 Da dum dum da dum
 Da dum dum da dum
 Da dum dum da dum ....
 yo, you gotta keep smilin
 No matter what
 Cause this is the life
 And whatcha gon do bout that? Eh?
 
 
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                |  chinatown_girl
 Oyster Bay, NY
 age: 19
 
 
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 Lives In The Balance – Jackson Browne
 
 I've been waiting for something to happen
 For a week or a month or a year
 With the blood in the ink of the headlines
 And the sound of the crowd in my ear
 You might ask what it takes to remember
 When you know that you've seen it before
 Where a government lies to a people
 And a country is drifting to war
 And there's a shadow on the faces, Of the men who send the guns
 To the wars that are fought in places, Where their business interest runs
 On the radio talk shows and the T.V.
 You hear one thing again and again
 How the U.S.A. stands for freedom
 And we come to the aid of a friend
 But who are the ones that we call our friends--
 These governments killing their own?
 Or the people who finally can't take any more
 And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
 There are lives in the balance
 There are people under fire
 There are children at the cannons
 And there is blood on the wire
 There's a shadow on the faces
 Of the men who fan the flames
 Of the wars that are fought in places
 Where we can't even say the names
 They sell us the President the same way
 They sell us our clothes and our cars
 They sell us every thing from youth to religion
 The same time they sell us our wars
 I want to know who the men in the shadows are
 I want to hear somebody asking them why
 They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
 But they're never the ones to fight or to die
 And there are lives in the balance
 There are people under fire
 There are children at the cannons
 And there is blood on the wire
 
 
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