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Am Asus
After the Nazis we were baited by the Russian bear
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Our liberators wanted Poland for a thoroughfare
Am Asus
I was a victim of December nineteen eighty one
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I took a final beating from the blunt end of a Russian gun.
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You plant your missiles while our people wait in line for bread
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You hand an army tank above us by a bloody thread.
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You bought our government, they crawl like bleating sheep to you
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We know from history that human life is cheap to you.
CHORUS
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Over my dead body redemption draweth night
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Over my dead body I hear the battle cry
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Try and blow out the fire, you're fanning the flames
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We're gonna rise up from the ashes 'till we're ashes again.
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You make a mockery of all that we hold sacred here
You drive us underground in hopes that we will disappear
We seek our sanctuary where the altar candle burns
Our dignity's a legacy the cross of Jesus reaffirms
Chorus
After the Nazis we were baited by the Russian bear
Our liberators wanted Poland as a thoroughfare
Rise up, my brothers, don't despair the Iron Curtain's rod
Someday we'll draw the string assisted by the hand of God.
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I was a victim of December nineteen eighty one
I took a final beating from the blunt end of a Russian gun.
You made a memory, the memory will multiply
You may kill the body but the spirit, it will never die.
Am C / D E Am / G / D
Over my dead body redemption draweth night
Am C / D E Am / G / D
Over my dead body I hear the battle cry
Am C / D E Am
Try and blow out the fire, you're fanning the flames
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We're gonna rise up from the ashes 'till we're ashes again.
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