I wrote a four word letter,
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With post-script in crooked lines,
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"Tho I'd lived I'd never been alive."
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You know who I am - you held my hem
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As I traveled blind
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Listening to a whispering in my ear,
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Soft but getting stronger,
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Telling me the only purpose of my being here
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Is to stay a bit longer.
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Stealing a bicycle chain,
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As the handlebars crashed to the ground,
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The back wheel detached from the frame,
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It kept rolling, yeah, but aimlessly drifting around.
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Oh, doubters, let's go down,
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Lets go down - won't you come on down?
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Oh doubters, lets go down-
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Down, to the river to pray?
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"But I'm so small I can barely be seen - how can this great love be inside of me?"
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Look at your eyes - they're small in size, but they see enormous things.
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Wearing black canvas slippers
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In our frog-on-a-lily-pad pose
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We sewed buttons and zippers
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To chinese pink silk
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And olive night clothes
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If you can someday stop by
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Somehow we'll show you the pictures and fix you some tea
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(see, my dad's getting a bit older now and just unimaginably lonely).
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Oh, pretenders, let's go down
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Lets go down- won't you come on down?
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Oh, pretenders
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Lets go down-
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Down to the river and pray?
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"Oh but I'm so afraid, and I'm set in my ways"
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But he'll make the rabbits and rocks sing his praise.
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"But I'm too tired, I won't last long."
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No, he'll use the weak to overcome the strong!
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Oh, Amanda, let's go down
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Lets go down- won't you come on down?
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Mama, Nana, lets go down, down in the dirt by the river to pray?
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You struke the match - why not be utterly changed by fire?
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To sacrifice the shadow and the mist
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Of a brief life you never much liked - So if you'd care to come along we're gonna curb all our never-ending,
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clever complaining (as who's ever heard of a singer criticized by his song?)
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We hunger, but though all that we eat brings us little relief we don't know quite what else to do,
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We have all our beliefs but we don't want our beliefs,
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God of peace, we want you.
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Four Word Letter (Pt. Two)
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Mewithoutyou (Me Without You) |