where were you when i laid the foundations of the earth?
did you know what happened?
did you care?

why should i be good, when you aren’t?

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leaving it behind
we head to the tropics.

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| 2 |
lost and speaking br o ken spanish
and outdated gringo peace offerings

what i want to do, i can’t do. i do what i hate.

i look across the canal into panamanian eyes.

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| 3 |
we give up and drink cheap cervezas
surrounded by neon stucco walls

what are we to you?

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tell us a story from before we can remember

the man with black skin gets off on anti-american radio shows
i want to show him i agree but his city has locked him out for twenty years
and i am the face of the enemy

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| 5 |
a cuba libre is just a rum and coke.

make me good. make me brave.

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credit: the tree of life by terrence malick