Key: A major
Verse 1
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Susan wakes to the sounds
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Fixes her breakfast and sends down to work
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and she's nursing baby while
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Rita is driving to school where
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teaching her language and
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Sarah remembers a lifetime of living
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And all of them hum a few lines from a
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song that they learned as a child
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But the government say you are not like us
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Aida wakes to the sounds of the morning
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Fixes her breakfast sends
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And her father comes down from the
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They play in cantinas,
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And
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Flora's baking a cake for her birthday
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Her neighbors and old nurse
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From a song that they learned as a child
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But the government say you are not like us,
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you don't talk like us, you don't feel like
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us.
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Donna wakes to the sounds of the morning,
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pulls close to the nickel, because he's warm.
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And she feeds and she dresses her two children warmly,
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while her mother she pauses,
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she lost in the war
And praise
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Have it be honor keeps
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him most of her life
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as a child
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But the government say, you are not like us,
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you don't talk like us, you don't feel like
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us.
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who's not like you?
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Deep in the ground,
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hear the sounds of the morning
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For women and children and
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and the only sound now they can make is
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the sound of the rustle of grass as it
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whispers to remember us an d sing us some
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lines from a song that you learned as a
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And I am a poet who woke to
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And made me some coffee and
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wrote a few lines
you
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