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Maybe it?s just cause I?ve only known freedom
Entitled to dreams and safety and things
Free to complain and say here?s the answer
Maybe it?s just cause I?ve only known freedom

Maybe it?s just that I?m trying to remember
A million small things like ?do unto others?
Things that we knew when we were just babies
Maybe it?s just that I?m trying to remember

Maybe it?s just that we?re slowly forgetting
The women and children who bled with the men
For better conditions in mines and in factories
Maybe it?s just that we?re slowly forgetting

Maybe it?s just that we can?t hide the story
Of the killing of Indians and Blacks and Chinese
Of the poor who fight wars while the rich drink martinis
Maybe it?s just that we can?t hide the story

Maybe it?s just that I?m growing im pa tient
With leaders and bosses who laugh up their sleeves
And think that we?re stupid and won?t lift a finger
Maybe it?s just that I?m growing im pa tient

Maybe it?s just that I know that they?re lying
For money and power and shortcuts and privilege
They tell us we owe them for all that we?re blessed with
Maybe it?s just that I know that they?re lying

Maybe it?s just that I?m becoming in diff erent
I?ve got troubles enough without thinking of you
And horrors that don?t really touch me directly
Maybe it?s just that I?m becoming in diff erent

Maybe it?s just that I want my compassion ECHO
Intact, undiluted and free of disguise
So hit me for saying ?well that?s just how the world is?
?Cause maybe it?s just that I want my compassion

And maybe it?s just that it?s never quite over
While arrogant powers digest and consume
while people have children and pray for their future
Maybe it?s just that it?s never quite over

Maybe it?s just that we?re talking about people
not blue chips or NASDAQ or 401K?s
Our programs are gutted while taxes build weapons
Maybe it?s just that we?re talking about people

Maybe it?s just that the people are stronger
no one on top ever hands you a thing
You?ll die for resisting and still ask for better
Maybe it?s just that the people are stronger

Maybe it?s just that I?ve only known freedom
but I still believe in dreams and the hope that that brings
And I hope we complain when they don?t hear the answers
Maybe it?s just cause we?re talking about freedom