The Haunted House
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Have YOU ever BEEN
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to A HAUNTED HOUSE?
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bET YOU have!
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a place you didn't understand
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a place that frightened you
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Did you SEE?
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Did you HEAR?
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Did you THINK?
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that you knew what was around the corner
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think back to a time
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to a place where you felt you had been before
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but couldn't understand why you felt that way
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De'ja' voo
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Did you hear the noise?
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Did you SEE the light?
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BATs flying way UP high
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MONSTERS walking through a haze
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coming
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CLOSER, CLOSER, CLOSER
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Do you SEE how it collides
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with R E A L I T Y?
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We walk in a trance every day
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No time for reflecting
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Always in a hurry
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Driving our weapons of destruction
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faster, faster, faster
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No time for KINDNESS
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No time to GIVE
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No time to FEEL
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I saw a woman
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in the LAUNDROMAT
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I heard her ask
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how much it would cost to repair
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her TORN clothes
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She looked like a deer
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caught in the CROSSFIRE
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Was so worried about how much it cost
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no A F F E CT
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i knew in my heart and soul
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that she needed HELP
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so i gave her a coin
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so she could get
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her clothes repaired
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Didn't want her to worry about whether she could eat
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And as i was about to leave discretely
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she asked said: WHO ARE YOU?
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I was startled because i knew
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that she REMEMBERED
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REMEMBERED
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REMEMBERED
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She knew that i understood
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HER PAIN
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Because I was that woman
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in another LIFE
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a VAGABOND, who lost HER way
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due to circumstance
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It is the people who can still feel the pain
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they are the ONES
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who are still AWAKE
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they haven't let their HEARTS
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fall asleep
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they haven't let their souls be silenced
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or encased in SEA of DENIAL
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We've all been in THE HAUNTED HOUSE
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Blinded by our goals
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JUST trying to make ends meet
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But what about GOODNESS?
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We forgot ABOUT goodness
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we forgot that goodness COUNTS
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more than anything
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more than MONEY, POWER, or FAME
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GOODNESS counts!
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don't forget
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it's all that matters
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don't forget
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don't forget
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It's all that really matters
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Just be good
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and try to do the RIGHT thing
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and (s)he will forgive us
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if we mess up
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just take the time
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just make the effort
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to do the right thing
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and (s)he will forgive us
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for (s)he knows that we are only human
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and that we live in a haunted house
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a house that makes us forget
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where we've been
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isobel
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The Haunted House
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David Gray |