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Young Boy
Richie Havens
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Young boy
You ain't never gonna break those chains
You ain't never gonna see a brighter day
'Til you start using your brains
Young boy
Nothing gonna be the same
Ain't gonna be the way it used to be
Until we stop the games
Stranger
You're a stranger everywhere
Stranger (Young boy)
You're a stranger everywhere
Young boy
Are you ever gonna realize
Nothing is ever gonna really change
'Til all separation dies
Young boy
You're doing what they want you to do
Killing each other every day
Boy, they really love you
Stranger
You're a stranger everywhere
Stranger (Young boy)
You're a stranger everywhere
What's the charge?
Think about it
Think about it
Think, think, think about it
Think, think about it
Think about it
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Stranger
You're a stranger everywhere
What's the charge?
You're a stranger (Young boy)
You're a stranger everywhere
What's the charge?
Young boy
Don't let them kill your dreams
They can't get away with everything
No, not if we all scream
Young boy
We're gonna turn everything around
We're gonna stand up to this genocide
With both feet on the ground
Young boy (Today, the nation's street gangs came
Together peacefully to let the establishment know
That they have declared war on the justice system)
Come down off your throne (They say that all their efforts from
This day forth is to be directed at breaking the poverty chain)
And let the people go (By protecting their younger
Brothers and sisters from repeating the dead-end lifestyle
That society has created for them in their community)
Come down off your throne (They say they will declare
Zero population in the nation's prisons by the year 2000)
Strangers everywhere
Strangers, strangers everywhere
Strangers, strangers everywhere
Strangers, strangers everywhere
Young boy
Young boy
Oh, young boy
Young boy
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