Without a queen the locust swarm
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Turned the ground to black,
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Descending like a shadowy tower opon a fish's back.
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And scattered the sticks who crawled
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Like snakes in the sand,
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As the red clay took the form of a lizard,
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Who rushed like a moth to the flame of my open hand
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(My little world...in my sad little world...)
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Then a speckled bird humbly inspired
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Ran across the road when it could have flown,
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And it made me smile.
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And at the water's edge, Babylon;
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As we lay and slept,
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The river wept for you, Zion!
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The stones cry out,
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Bells shake the sky!
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All of creation groans...
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SHHHH!
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Listen to it!
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Messes of men in farmer poverty;
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Not much for monks, but we pretend to be;
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Share a silent meal and a pot of chamomile.
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Gypsies like us should be stamped in solidarity.
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And I held you in my fond but distant memory,
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While waiting for the Mother Hen to gather me,
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Who regretfully wrote:
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"You have a decent ear for notes,
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But you can't yet appreciate harmony."
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O porcupine, low in the tree; your eyes to mine:
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'You'd be well inclined not to mess with me.'
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And at the garden's edge beneath a speechless sky,
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As his friends slept,
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Jesus wept - and it's no wonder why.
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You wanna be set free?
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You wanna set me free?!
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Well that can only come from
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A union with the One Who Never Dies.
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[In my little world, in my sad little world, I patched a plaster wall
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In my little world, I was waiting, just dying
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to take offense at something.
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In my little world, in my little world, in my sad little world
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This is all there is in my little world.
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In darkness a light shines
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On me.
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In darkness a light shines
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On you.
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I wanna say!
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I never gathered figs from a thorny branch,
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(I wanna say!)
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I never picked a grape off a bramble bush!
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(I wanna say!)
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For the past five; almost six years now,
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(That light is God!)
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You haven't once looked at me with kindness in your eyes;
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(I wanna say!)
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And you say Judas is a brother of mine?
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(I wanna say!)
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Oh, but sister in our darkness a light shines!
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(I wanna say!)
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And all I ever want to say for the rest of my life,
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(I wanna say!)
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Is how the light is GOD!
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(That light is God!)
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And through I've been mistaken on this or that point,
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That light is God.
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O, Porcupine
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Mewithoutyou (Me Without You) |