Kimya Dawson – 12 26 (Guitar)

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One of her babies is rotting in the sun

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And the other one was found drowned in the ocean

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Her mom and dad are in their van crushed and bloated

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And her husband was thrown from his fishing boat

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So please give me a break from all your complaining

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About who was mean to you and how your stepdad is a pain

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- I care, I swear, but I just can't take it, not today

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All I can think about are tsunamis and earthquakes

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Everything she's ever known is gone, gone, gone

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Everyone she's ever loved is gone, gone, gone

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The only reason she's alive is

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She grabbed a palm frond and held on

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And held on

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You can call me crazy but it seems to me we could

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Have sent more than we spend in one day killing Iraqis

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To help the hundreds of thousands

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Who are injured and diseased

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And hungry and homeless and without families

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I'm appalled by our government's initial reaction

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And the fact that they asked for a verbal retraction

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From the folks who called them stingy

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They're just covering their assets

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Well, they thank their greedy god for wiping out the lower class

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Everything she's ever known is gone, gone, gone

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Everyone she's ever loved is gone, gone, gone

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The only reason she's alive is

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She grabbed a palm frond and held on

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And held on

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We'd have 12/26 tattoed across our foreheads

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If something this atrocious happened on our coast instead

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Well, a tragedy's a tragedy no matter where it happens

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Close your eyes really tight and imagine

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That everything you've ever known is gone

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And everything you've ever loved is gone

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And the only reason you're alive is you were lucky

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And you were strong enough to hold on

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While you watched your family die

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While you watched your family die

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While you watched your family die

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While you watched your family die