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The Spirit of Pocahontas | Disneyland 1995
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Jun 30, 2025
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jesus
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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say
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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As the river cuts it
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though the river's proud and strong
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we will choose the smoothest course
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that's why rivers live
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[Applause]
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steady
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as the steady be
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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hey
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hey
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hey
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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welcome beloved friends i am Werewakan
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tribe keeper of Pakan history mystery
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and sacred tradition
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welcome to the ceremonial grounds a
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sacred gathering place of the spirits
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here we will tell our story it is the
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story of a beautiful spirit she who
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dreamed of lasting peace among all
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people let us celebrate the spirit of
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Pocahontas
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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the spirits of the earth the wind the
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water I call upon you
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bring us her spirit nam
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[Music]
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a freer spirit never roamed the earth
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pocahontas was the beautiful daughter of
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the great chief Sha she was often a
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challenge for her father
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[Music]
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my daughter father see you give me great
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joy we have much to talk about i want to
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hear everything you've been doing father
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for many nights now I've been having a
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very strange dream i think it's telling
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me something exciting is about to happen
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donor something exciting is about to
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happen really what is it kokoam has
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asked to seek your hand in marriage
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it would make our heart sore
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but he's so
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he's so serious yes he will make a fine
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husband
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[Music]
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father my dreams are bringing me down
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another path this is the right path for
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you why can't I choose my own you are
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the daughter of the chief someday our
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people will look to you for wisdom and
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strength it's time to take her place
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among our people he steadily like the
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river he doesn't understand i can't
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marry Pokemon there's something out
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there for me i just wish I knew what it
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was you want me to be steady like the
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river but the river isn't steady at all
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you can't sit in the same place the
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water's always changing always flowing
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when people like us can't fight that we
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all must pay our price to be safe we
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lose our chance of ever knowing
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what's around the river
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waiting just around the river
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i look for once more just around the
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river beyond the shore
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fight don't know what I dream
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just around the river
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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i feel it trees are right behind these
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bones can I ignore that sound distant
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roaming for a handsome sturdy husband to
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build handsome sturdy walls i never
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dreamed that something might be coming
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just around the river
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just around the river
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i am once more just around the river
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beyond the shore across the sea don't do
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one more
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just around the river
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just around the river
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[Music]
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i choose
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[Music]
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all my
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[Music]
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What do you still
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wait for me
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ing giver
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[Music]
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just a rock
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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for the hunters and the spirits shared a
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strong friendship and Shelton searched
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them out for guidance grandmother Willow
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grandmother Willow is that you Pocahont
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hello Grandmother Willow good morning
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child i was hoping you'd visit willow I
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need to talk to you go on i can't really
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explain it i've been having these
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strange dreams let's hear all about
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I feel that something's going to happen
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it's about time something in the wind
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maybe perhaps the wind is speaking to
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you i'm confused Grandmother Willow all
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around you are spirits child they live
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in the earth the water the sky if you
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listen they will guide you on your path
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but will I ever find my path hush child
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my grandmother will listen
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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what is it telling you it's telling me
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something's coming
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strange clouds remember the will of
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strange clouds they are almost here
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but what are they they are your dreams
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my child they often tell you what lies
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ahead
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[Music]
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just around the river beyond the shore
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free don't know what I dream in my head
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just around the river
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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strange
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[Music]
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The people with the boats were had skin
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that was pale and sickly sometimes they
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even had hair on their faces the great
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chap was wary of these visitors they
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came here looking for something
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something they would not buy something
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they called
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in 167
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we silence
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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of the earth and Fire I call upon you
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bring us his spirit
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there was one white man who came looking
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for adventure and found something else
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his name was
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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on the beach of Virginia
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[Music]
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with a for
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[Music]
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the Virginia
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Come on then we need to go this way just
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ago
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[Music]
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all my light swirl and life is gone
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a wild mortality country I could design
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[Music]
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and I don't plan on this one
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in a landing place
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the greatest adventure is mine
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
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such a magnificent country
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there's so much that can be done with
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all see the roads and bridges we shall
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build
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new houses
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sellers and new families
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who's there
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[Music]
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no no wait no it's all right i'm not
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going to hurt you
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who are you
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[Music]
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i'm John Smith can you hear it it's only
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a handshake
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[Music]
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nothing's happening
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no I need your hand it's how we say
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hello hello hello
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what's this it's how we say goodbye
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goodbye goodbye no wait
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what's the door
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time passed the bond between them grew
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strong come I want you to meet someone
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you're a mother hello my child
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hello John Smith
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look at us that tree is talking to me
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then talk back what do you say to a tree
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anything you want don't be frightened
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young man my bark is worse than my bite
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so your tree has a good soul for God and
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he's handsome too oh I like her take
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care of my little princess
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princess
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your princess
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i've never met a princess before we
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don't have them in London oh we've got
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kings and castles and carriages
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buildings
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buildings as tall as trees
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but it didn't have what I want
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and this land does it has everything I
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want
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[Music]
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those buildings as tall as trees i'd
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like to see them you will we're going to
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build them here i don't understand we'll
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show you people how to use the land
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properly we brutalize the savages all
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over the world
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savages
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well not that you're savage
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i'm savage it's just a word that's
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rubbish for people who are univilized
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like me
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well when I say univilized what I mean
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What you mean is not like you i think
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I'm an ignorant savage
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i've been so many places i guess it must
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be so still I cannot see if the savage
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one is me
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can there be so much that you don't know
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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you own
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[Music]
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the earth
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but I know every rock and tree and
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creature as a life has a spirit has a
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name
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you think the only people who are people
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are the people who look and think like
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you
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but if you walk the footsteps of a
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stranger
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you learn things you never knew you
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never knew have you ever heard the wolf
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cry to the blue corn
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or ask the burning fox how white he gr
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you sing with all the voices of the
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mountain
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can you paint with all the colors of the
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wind
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can you paint with all the colors of the
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wind
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heat
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[Music]
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heat
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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unbidden pine trees in the forest come
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taste the sun sweet berries of the earth
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come rolling all hatches all around you
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and for once never wonder what they were
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rain storms in the river my brothers
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and every
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[Music]
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connected to each other
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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know
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and you tell me
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[Music]
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But whe
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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you have
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Christ
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[Music]
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[Music]
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woo
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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something's happening i have to go wait
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when will I see you again tonight right
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here
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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when the people from the boats didn't
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find their gold they thought we were
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hiding it from them that made them very
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angry
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[Applause]
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hatred began to poison the hearts of
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everyone the warriors of both sides
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prepared for the oncoming storm
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for a least obscure forcing them all
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down the same path the path to war this
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is what we fear the pale face to the
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demon the only thing they feel when all
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is free beneath that milky high there's
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emptiness inside i wonder if they even
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savages savages barely even human
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savages savages killers in the core
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they're different from our
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trusted we must the war they're savages
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savages burying the humans now something
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[Music]
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what can you expect from filthy little
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heathens it's what you get when races
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are diverse
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they're only good when dead
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they're savages savages even humans
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savages savages drive them from the
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shore they're not like you like me which
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means they must be evil we must have a
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war they're savages savages
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now
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[Music]
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will
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I need to talk to you child what is
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happening i feel the earth trembling in
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fear my people are preparing for war
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goas listen to me my men are planning to
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attack so many of our people will be
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killed grandmother Willow what can I do
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oh just listen a stone thrown into a
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pond makes ripples in the water the
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ripples are small at first and then they
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grow but someone has to start them trust
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me i don't know what I can do still I
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know I try now we make them eagle help
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my teeth to fly
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mountain help my heart be
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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savages
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[Applause]
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savages
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for
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the race until
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we sat
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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Heat heat
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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heat
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heat
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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no
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if you kill him you'll have to kill me
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too stand back i won't do as I do not
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deserve to die father
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I love him
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around you
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this is where the path of hatred has
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brought us
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[Music]
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my daughter speaks with a wisdom beyond
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her years
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[Music]
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from this day forward there is to be
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more killing it will not start with me
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release him and come with me
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i want to get this way i want to get on
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this way i can't
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my place is with my people
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that is the path I choose
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but my heart will always be with you
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goodbye
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[Music]
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pocahontas showed us courage and
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understanding
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she taught us that hatred is an evil
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spirit we are one people when we paint
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with the colors
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of the wind
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the rainstorm and the river are my
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brothers
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the car can be honest
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are my friends
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and we all
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each other
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in a circle
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[Music]
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heat
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heat
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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yeah heat
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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yeah
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[Applause]
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heat
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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heat
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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heat
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heat
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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heat
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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heat
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up here
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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