Lesson 1: You've Got to Be Taught to Hate and Fear
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Free to Be by Bruce Cockburn

Got no social graces


Wired to the switchboard

Never know my place


Always on the move

One thing I am sure of


Things we love to cling to

You can’t judge a man by his race


But there’s nothing we can prove

Birth don’t come easy


You can only deal with

Freedom doesn’t come cheap


What’s before your face

Rules and worlds get swept away


And the life you’re given’s no use at all

While you waste your time in sleep


If you burn it up in hate




Grow up you


Grow up you

Grow up me


Grow up me

Grown together


Grown together

Free to be


Free to be




There’s music in the forest



Children laugh in the school yard



On the skid row of the spirit



Hear the ranting of the Western Guard



Why don’t you cool out



Can it be so hard



To love yourself without thinking



Someone else holds a lower card






Grow up you



Grow up me



Grown together



Free to be





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