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A Design For Living - Lyrics by Dead Can Dance


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In times of great vexation              when one must choose between what's right and wrong                             freedom, so they say,                   amounts to but the choices you have made!                           Through all the arbitrary                         rationale concerning liberty,                             freedom, I must say,                      exists within unconditioned minds!                                   Reason...                               has come of age.                           How can you be satisfied                         with things the way they are                        when all that surrounds us now                               and so much more                                remains inside                          the keeper's dark embrace?                                The insatiable                           thirst for power has made                             idols out of mortals                                gods into clay                              soldiers into heros                             children into slaves!                                  All damned                                   desires                             their hopes betrayed.                           Who will suffer the laws,                          that State can decide your                              child's education,                           unless you pay the price?                                   Refrain:                          Who will suffer their laws?                         Who will suffer their minds?                         Who will suffer their words?                        Who will suffer their designs?

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