Rehumanize Yourself

Album: Ghost in the Machine (1981)
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  • He goes out at night with his big boots on
    None of his friends know right from wrong
    They kick a boy to death 'cause he don't belong
    You've got to humanize yourself

    A policeman put on his uniform
    He'd like to have a gun just to keep him warm
    Because violence here is a social norm
    You've got to humanize yourself

    Re-humanize yourself
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    I work all day at the factory
    I'm building a machine that's not for me
    There must be a reason that I can't see
    You've got to humanize yourself

    Billy's joined the National Front
    He always was a little runt
    He's got his hand in the air with the other cunts
    You've got to humanize yourself

    Re-humanize yourself
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    I work all day at the factory
    I'm building a machine that's not for me
    There must be a reason that I can't see
    You've got to humanize yourself

    A policeman put on his uniform
    He'd like to have a gun just to keep him warm
    Because violence here is a social norm
    You've got to humanize yourself

    Re-humanize yourself
    Re-humanize yourself
    Re-humanize yourself
    Re-humanize yourself

    Re-humanize yourself
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    Re-humanize yourself
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    Re-humanize yourself
    Re-humanize yourself Writer/s: Gordon Sumner, Stewart Copeland
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 1

  • Bill from UsPunk music configured to reach the masses, and boy did it!, this is a great song, that is an important part of such a great album, one that we played beginning to end, (don't do that much anymore) Ghost In the Machine is really a top ten of all time album for a lot of us. And so much is said in just really two stanzas!, 1938, 1981, today .....some things, well Sting knows.
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