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(Can be sung to the tune of MacArthur Park. Thank you Jimmy Webb and Richard Harris.)

They were never waiting for us girl. They were one step ahead though they never had a case. Between the streets and highways they would chase and hunt us down like rats just to put us "in our place." MacArthur Park is trending in the news, all the big bad ICE men going round, looking for some brown folks to detain. I don't think that they will make it 'cause the people just won't take it and they won't put up with hooligans again. Oh noooooooo. I recall the stifling summer heat coming like a wave in the air and round the stalls. The children and the babies snatched from hands and the old folks wandering dazed by the wall. MacArthur Park is trending in the news, all the big bad ICE men going round, looking for some Asians to detain. I don't think that they will make it 'cause the people just won't take it and they won't put up with ruffians again. Oh noooooooo There will be another home for me and I will seek it. There will be another dream for me and I will feel it. I will drink the wine of liberty and never let you catch me facing down a gun. And after all the times in my life, after all the times of my life I'll know I have won. I will take my life into my hands and I will live it. I will win the respect in their eyes or I will lose it. I will have the freedom I desire and my fervor flow like waters by and by. And after all the times in my life, after all the times of my life I will be forgetting them and never ask why. MacArthur Park is trending in the news, all the big bad ICE men going round, looking for some black folks to detain. I don't think that they will make it 'cause the people just won't take it and they won't put up with treachery again. Oh noooooooo

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