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See her in the desert wind Her eyes full of starlight Through to sunrise So gently she rocks Saying 'baby oh my pretty baby I won't let nothing hurt you' 'We're heading over the rainbow To where milk and honey flows More than the river back home' But walls rise Like layers of makeup on a black eye Excuse me while I Touch up the paintwork on my prison bars Paint them blue like the sky So nobody tries to break out See him drive through the blaze Windshield wipers in the red cinder rain Crying for his home was left to the flames See her ride to the rig See her cloth tied to sticks See her flying down the highway To a brighter morning Birds in the spring In a cage We fight and rage And we rage