“Did you ever hear about the great deception?
Well the plastic revolutionaries take the money and run.
Have you ever been down to love city?
Where they rip you off with a smile,
And it don't take a gun.”

The Great Deception
Song lyrics, Hard Nose the Highway (1973)

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“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.”

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