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In the afternoon light, riding around
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Riding my bike all over town
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They said on TV, that out west right now
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The rivers can poison us
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And it was hard to believe, watching it win
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Kept coming down and kept coming in
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And finally reached where our great cities stand
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Now the rivers can poison us
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And once more we find out, in case we forgot
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Just who is strong here and just who is not
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As if we could hand her some route that we'd plot
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And now the rivers can poison us
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It lifted the trash, it lifted the gold
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And lifted the lives too weak to hold
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All swept into some diluvian fold
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The rivers can poison us
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And it's like all that we've done, has seeped from the sea
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It's been, take what you want and leave what you leave
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We sure have been pigs since Adam and Eve
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Now the rivers can poison us
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And I love the thought of us all being one
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But kids in the third grade pack needles and guns
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And now we might die if we lie in the sun
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And the rivers can poison us
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Salt of the earth, ebb and the flow
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All that we have and more than we know
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Laden with garbage from decades ago
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The rivers can poison us
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Well, maybe one day the great salty blue
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Will swallow us up with all that we knew
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And things will start over like they always do
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When the rivers can poison us
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The rivers can poison us