What I Will
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What I Will.
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I will not dance to your war drum.
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I will not lend my soul nor my bones to your war drum.
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I will not dance to that beating.
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I know that beat.
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It is lifeless.
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I know intimately that skin you are hitting.
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It was alive once; hunted, stolen, stretched.
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I will not dance to your drummed up war.
00:27
I will not pop, spin, break for you.
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I will not hate for you or even hate you.
00:35
I will not kill for you.
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Especially, I will not die for you
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I will not mourn the dead with murder nor suicide.
00:43
I will not side with you or dance to bombs because everyone is dancing.
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Everyone can be wrong.
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Life is a right, not collateral or casual.
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I will not forget where I come from.
00:56
I will craft my own drum
00:58
Gather my beloved near, and our chanting will be dancing.
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Our humming will be drumming.
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I will not be played.
01:06
I will not lend my name nor my rhythm to your beat.
01:09
I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance.
01:13
This heartbeat is louder than death.
01:17
Your war drum ain't louder than this breath.
01:22
Breath noise.
01:23
What's up Ted people? Let me hear some noise.
01:26
Cheering.
01:27
A bunch of pacifists.
01:30
Confused, aspiring pacifists.
01:34
I understand.