Don Dixon
Don Dixon - Lottery Of Lives lyrics
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We gathered in dorms, every campus alike, as they read out the numbers, Controlling our lives We were quiet and thoughtful 'cause nobody knew if the axe of the draft Would hit me or hit you Our student deferments had ran out of steam and the nation had called for New blood in the stream Consciences objection is not right for me 'cause I thought that sometimes You must fight to be free But the voices in Asia seemed distant and hoarse, I knew that they were Fighting for freedom of choice That phrase that belied segregation is tops when they needed excuses to Burn up a bus But right now my eyes were glued to t.v. as they read out my number, 123 I was save, tucked away with my books in my bed as visions of chemistry Danced in my head Was my protesting nature elevating through zen or was I just a wolf in a Liberal sheep skin As I look 'round the room at the faces of friends who would soon be shaved Bald and subjected to whims of a drill sergeant, hell bent on making them Men, I regained my conviction to make the war end and to do what I could in My own little way to right every wrong that my forefathers made With the fathers explaining to teary-eyed wives that their sons will grow Up in the lottery of lives (Funny)