it had to be flashin like the daily double
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it had to be playin on TV
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it had to be loud mouthed on the comedy hour
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it had to be announced over loud speakers
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the CIA and Mafia are in cahoots
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it had to be said in old ladies' language
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it had to be said in American headlines
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kennedy stretched and smiled and got
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double crossed by lowlife goons and agents
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rich bankers with criminal connections
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dope pushers in CIA working with dope pushers
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from Cuba working with a big time
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syndicate from tampa, florida
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and it had to be said with a big mouth
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it had to be moaned over factory foghorns
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it had to be chattered on car radio news broadcasts
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it had to be screamed in the kitchen
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it had to be yelled in the basement where uncles were fighting
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it had to be howled on the streets by newsboys to bus conductors
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it had to be foghorned into New York harbor
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it had to echo onto hard hats
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it had to turn up the volume in university ballrooms
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it had to be written in library books, footnoted
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it had to be in the headlines of the Times and the mind
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it had to be barked on TV
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it had to be heard in alleys through ballroom doors
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it had to be played on wire services
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it had to be bells ringing
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Comedians stopped dead in the middle of a joke in las vegas
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it had to be fbi chief j. edgar hoover and frank costello syndicate
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mouthpiece meeting in central park, new york weekends,
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reported time magazine
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it had to be the mafia and the cia together starting war on cuba,
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bay of pigs and poison assassination headlines
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it had to be dope cops in the mafia
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who sold all their heroin in america
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it had to be the fbi and organized crime working together
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in cahoots against the commies
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it had to be ringing on multinational cash registers
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world-wide laundry for organized criminal money
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it had to be the cia and the mafia and the fbi together
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they were bigger than nixon
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and they were bigger that war
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it had to be a large room full of murder
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it had to be a mounted ass a solid mass of rage
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a red hot pen
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a scream in the back of the throat
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it had to be a kid that can breathe
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it had to be in Rockefeller's mouth
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it had to be central intelligence, the family, all of this, the agency mafia
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it had to be organized crime
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one big set of gangs working together in cahoots
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hitmen
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murderers everywhere
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the secret
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the drunk
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the brutal
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the dirty rich
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on top of a slag heap of prisons
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industrial cancer
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plutonium smog
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garbage cities
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grandmas' bed soft from father's resentment
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it had to be the rulers
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they wanted law and order
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and they got rich on wanting protection for the status quo
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they wanted junkies
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they wanted attica
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they wanted kent state
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they wanted war in indochina
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it had to be the cia and the mafia and the fbi
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multinational capitalists
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strong armed squads
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private detective agencies for the rich
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and their armies and navies and their air force bombing planes
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it had to be capitalism
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the vortex of this rage
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this competition
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man to man
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the horses head in a capitalist's bed
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the Cuban turf
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it rumbles in hitmen
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and gang wars across oceans
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bombing cambodia settled the score when soviet pilots
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manned egyptian fighter planes
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chile's red democracy
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bumped off with white house pots and pans
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a warning to mediterranean governments
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the secret police have been embraced for decades
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The nkpd and cia keep each other's secrets
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The ogbu and dia never hit their own
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The kgb and the fbi are one mind
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brute force and full of money
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brute force, world-wide, and full of money
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brute force, world-wide, and full of money
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brute force, world-wide, and full of money
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brute force, world-wide, and full of money
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it had to be rich and it had to be powerful
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they had to murder in indonesia 500000
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they had to murder in indochina 2000000
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they had to murder in czechoslovakia
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they had to murder in chile
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they had to murder in russia
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and they had to murder in America
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