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Give it Up

from Nowhere Fast by Kyp Harness

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GIVE IT UP

I don’t want a job in your factory
And I don’t think you know what’s best for me
I could shut my mouth and bear it silently
But you want me to be what I was never mean to be

I’m gonna give it up while I still got the time
I’m gonna give it up while I still got the time
To leave it all behind

Look out in the street, baby, better load your gun
Everyone’s a ghost or bein’ haunted by one
Check out the guy in the coonskin cap, he’s chewin’ on a bone
He fought a war for someone else now he fights his own alone

I’m gonna give it up while I still got the time
I’m gonna give it up while I still got the time
To leave it all behind

Security security security
Don’t mean that much to me
Uninterrupted sleep with fifty channels on TV
Livin’ under lock and key with the illusion that you’re free
Sittin’ in a bomb shelter with nothin’ to do
Dying for your right to die – what does freedom mean to you?

I’m gonna give it up while I still got the time
I’m gonna give it up while I still got the time
To leave it all behind

Look up in the sky, baby, can you see the sun?
The city is an animal that likes to eat its young
My mouth is filled with broken teeth, there’s blood upon my hands
There’s a shadow on the sidewalk where my sister used to stand

Where’s it written that a man can cry and still not know his pain?
That he must keep on falling till he can’t get up again?
That the lessons of his errors must remain misunderstood
Till they’re burned into his flesh and written in his blood?

I’m gonna give it up while I still got the time
I’m gonna give it up while I still got the time
To leave it all behind

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from Nowhere Fast, released October 13, 2014

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