THE NEW WILD WEST
WORDS & MUSIC : JEWEL TRANSCRIBED BY OLA SVÄRDH
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(Intro & 1st verse)
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YOU SEE THE GHOST OF THE BUFFALO MOVING BOTH FIERCE AND SLOW
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LIKE GLITTERING PROPHESIES ON THE EDGE OF THE HORIZON
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AS YOU DRIVE GLITTERING HIGHWAYS AND BEATEN-UP BYWAYS
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THAT STRADDLE AND GIRDLE OUR GREAT AND MANY-FACES NATION
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YOU SEE THE LAMBS IN THE GHETTOS WHO WORSHIP THEIR GEPETTOS
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BELIEVING IN, NEVER SEEING, THE STRING THEY THINK BIND THEM
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SO WE WRITE TO OUR CONGRESSMEN WITH BLEEDING PENS OF THE SORROW WITHIN
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AND IN RETURN, THEY JUST SEND TICKETS TO THE LATEST TOM HANKS SHOW
CHORUS:
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WELCOME TO THE NEW WILD WEST
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EACH MAN FOR HIMSELF
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CIVILIZED STEEPLES AND LONELY PEOPLE
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WELCOME TO THE NEW WILD WEST
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THERE ARE SO MANY FACTIONS AND CUE-CARD REACTIONS ITīS HARD
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TO KEEP CLEAR THE POSSIBILITIES HERE īCAUSE THEREīS NO FORCE TO UNITE THEM
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PRIVILEGE HAS RULED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS WARS HAVE BEEN FOUGHT
WITH BIBLES AND TEARS YET LIBERATION CANīT DENY
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THE TEMPTATION AND SOON BECOMES THE OPPRESSOR
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SHOW ME A LEADER WHOīS FIT TO LEAD WHO DONīT SOW HIS SEED
IN ANYTHING WOUNDED ENOUGH TO BREED
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BECAUSE AFTER ALL, WHAT FUN IS POWER IF YOU CANīT ACT LIKE A ROCK STAR
CHORUS:
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WELCOME TO THE NEW WILD WEST
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EACH MAN FOR HIMSELF
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CIVILIZED STEEPLES AND LONELY PEOPLE
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WELCOME TO THE NEW...
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AS FOR ME, IīVE BEEN PETTY OH, AND UNKIND, BUT I
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KNOW MY OWN MIND AND SINCE IT SEEMS CLEAR THEREīS NO ONE
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LEADING US HERE THE ONLY THING LEFT IT APPEARS IS TO
TASK OURSELVES TO BE BETTER EACH TIME, THAN THOSE BEFORE US
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WEīLL BE AN ARMY OF THIEVES, OF SELF-FREED SLAVES, OF MILD-MANNERED MAIDS
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WEīLL FIGHT WITH WHISPERS AND BLADES SO GET READY, A NEW DAY IS DAWNING
CHORUS:
F F/E D
WELCOME TO THE NEW WILD WEST
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EACH MAN FOR HIMSELF
F F/E C G/B
A NATION OF CIVILIZED STEEPLES AND LONELY PEOPLE
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WELCOME TO THE NEW WILD WEST