Intro
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Fighting, living, dying
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For what? For freedom
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That's what which men have fought since time began
To be free
Verso 1:
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They've been making blanked statements, scaring everyone
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They've been making you feel like you never did belong
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Yeah, he said, and she said, yeah, they say a lot
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So many things, they just think you forgot
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Who you are, and what you do, and where you're coming from
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I just thought I could remind you with a simple song
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Look at body language, can start to rebuff
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To where we're using weapons, hatred, not love
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Not you
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You are in the wilderness, looking for your own purpose
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And you became a butterfly, a butterfly
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I knew you always would
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They were throwing sticks and stones
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Words can never break your bones
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You can spread your wings and fly, wings and fly
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I knew you always would
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I knew you always would
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I knew there always was nothing wrong with being
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You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you
Verso 2:
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All you ever see on CNN are enemies
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Telling you to lose your individuality
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Look, do this and do that, 'till you've lost your way
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'Till you need to fight or a means of escape
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They want you to stare into your screen and see yourself
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Blow smoke into your mirror till you imagine your own world
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So don't let them catch you with lies and deceit
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They can't take your soul or your desire for freedom
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You are in the wilderness, looking for your own purpose
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And you became a butterfly, a butterfly
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I knew you always would
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They were throwing sticks and stones
Dm
Words can never break your bones
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You can spread your wings and fly, wings and fly
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I knew you always would
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I knew you always would
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I knew there always was nothing wrong with being yeah, yeah
Ponte:
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You said I wanna be
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I'm gonna be everything they said I couldn't be
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Everything that I said I would be when I picked up a pen and I started to speak
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I hear the beat
My melody
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I just pour all my heart into these sheets
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I cannot just be a star in the streets
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Man, I knew what was different, I had that belief
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Nowhere to live, nothing to eat
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You were so hungry that you couldn't sleep
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You couldn't breathe
I couldn't be
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All of this shit was happ'nin' to me
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I would do drugs, I was a thief
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Still on the run from the karma police
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You were the mission that was given to me by the powers to be
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You are in the wilderness, looking for your own purpose
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And you became a butterfly, a butterfly
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I knew you always would
F Dm
You are in the wilderness, looking for your own purpose
Am
And you became a butterfly, a butterfly
G
I knew you always would
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They were throwing sticks and stones
Dm
Words can never break your bones
Am
You can spread your wings and fly, wings and fly
G
I knew you always would
F Dm
I knew you always would
F Dm
I knew you always would
F Dm
I knew there always was nothing wrong with being
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You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you