Heat haze rising on Hell's own hill
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To wake up this morning took an act of will
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You walked through the night to get to today
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To bring your children to give them a way
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Oh, oh this cruel sun
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Its daylight never done
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Cruelty just begun
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To make a shadow of everyone
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And if the rain came
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And if the rain came now
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Souls bent over without a breeze
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Blankets on burning trees
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I'm sick without disease
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Nobility on its knees
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And if the rain came
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And if the rain came
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Now
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Would it wash us all away
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On a wave of sorrow
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A wave of sorrow
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Where now the holy cities
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Where all the ancient holy scrolls
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Where now the Emperor Menelik
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And the Queen of Sheba's gold
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You my bride wear her crown
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On your finger precious stone
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Has every good thing now been sold
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Son of sheperd boy now king
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What wisdom can you bring
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what lyric could you sing
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Where is the music of the seraphim
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And if the rain came
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And if the rain came
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Would it wash us all away
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On a wave of sorrow
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A wave, a wave of sorrow
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Blessed are the meek who scratch in the dirt
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For they shal inherit what's left of the Earth
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Blessed are the kings who have left their thrones
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They are bleesed in this valley of dry bones
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Blessed are you with an empty heart
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From you have nothing from which you cannot part
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Blessed is the ego if it's all we've got this hour
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Blessed is the power that speaks truth to power
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Blessed is the sex worker's body sold tonight
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She works with what she got to save her children's life
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Blessed are the deaf who cannot hear her scream
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Blessed are the stupid who can dream
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Blessed are the tin can cardboard slums
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And Blessed is the spirit that overcomes
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Wave of Sorrow (Birdland)
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