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Patrik Eriksson and Ingrid Hult​é​n, poem by M. Ryan Garey - What It Means To Be Right

from The Song Poem Project vol​.​1 by Swoody Records

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the best one from the west,
you see 
cannot be best much longer
the west, you see, is jealous that
the east may still be stronger

so--like the boy who thinks he has
to taste-test all the cookies

and goes to bed with tummy-aches--

the west calls up its rookies

to prove to no one but itself

that it can beat and batter

the unprepared and unsuspecting
east, whate'er the matter

the west can try to justify
by saying that they differ
in many sorts of aspects

(as the corpses all get stiffer)

that killing one who's different

is like killing none at all
for who dare challenge what is right
deserves to take the fall

"there can only be one way,

(for that is what we're taught),
"
the stubborn westerners will say,
"and that is why we fought"

oh, who will speak for eastern men

and have complicity
with why they fought for what they thought,

with multiplicity

can differences be all bad,

can there be just one right?

if you please to answer no

there're reasons none to fight

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from The Song Poem Project vol​.​1, released May 7, 2013

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