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All that I wanted today was to be let out
And I'm so tired of these cages
I'd like to burn them all down
Why can't you separate your mind?
Why can't you separate your mind?
We could call this paradise
You can call it what you want
And I'm feeling all these pains inside my head
That I could do without
And they are messing up my guidance system
Blocking out the signal route
Why can't we separate our minds?
Why can't we separate our minds?
We could call this paradise.
We can call it what we want
Paradise
It should be in, then out
Not the other way around
I found God
It isn't what you thought it was
it's just as empty as the cause
You can call it what you want
But if we separate our minds
Separate our minds
We could call this paradise
If we can separate our minds
Then we can separate these lines
Separate our minds
We could call this paradise
And I'm so tired of these cages
I'd like to burn them all down
Why can't you separate your mind?
Why can't you separate your mind?
We could call this paradise
You can call it what you want
And I'm feeling all these pains inside my head
That I could do without
And they are messing up my guidance system
Blocking out the signal route
Why can't we separate our minds?
Why can't we separate our minds?
We could call this paradise.
We can call it what we want
Paradise
It should be in, then out
Not the other way around
I found God
It isn't what you thought it was
it's just as empty as the cause
You can call it what you want
But if we separate our minds
Separate our minds
We could call this paradise
If we can separate our minds
Then we can separate these lines
Separate our minds
We could call this paradise
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This one seems pretty clear to me. The author is upset at the bigotry surrounding her. "All that I want" is to scream out why "we can't just separate our minds". Sarah wants to know why we can't respect other people's views/values. Sarah is also questioning why people are willing to fight/die for others to be more like themselves (Islamic terror connection?). She's suggesting that if we were to learn tolerance for alternate viewpoints then we could call this world "Paradise". And because of our acceptance of alternate views "we can call it what we want", but its what I'd call "Paradise".
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