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Five Blind Men
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David Roth
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Walking in the woods one day with five blind men a-following
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We came upon an elephant just resting in a glade
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"What have we here" the blind men cried, for none had ever seen one
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"An elephant" was my reply, 'just sitting in the shade"
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"An elephant" I did explain "is big and friendly, gray and slow
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An elephant does not forget, and sprays things with its nose"
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Before I could continue on, the five blind men had found it
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And moving with their hands and ears had made their way around it
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The first blind man had grabbed its leg and proudly he concluded
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"An elephant is like a tree, it's strong and firm and rooted"
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The second blind man said "Hold on, that's not what I have here"
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For he was feeling round the tusk and called the beast "a spear"
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The third blind man was in the front, clinging to a trunkly nose
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"It's neither spear nor tree" said he, "an elephant's a hose"
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Around the other way beside a giant ear, the fourth blind man
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Stroking, found it wide and flat, and much more like a fan
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And lastly bringing up the rear, the fifth blind man did grab and grope
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And playing with the tail declared the elephant "a rope"
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Just right then our gentle friend, not used to such attention
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Got up to stretch and move a bit, and turned a ways around
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But when he sat back down again, the parts were out of order
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And each blind man was feeling parts the other four had found
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The first said, "Wait, what was a tree now feels much more like a spear"
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The second said, "That's what I thought, but now a hose is here"
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The third who thought he'd held the hose was fondling now a fan
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Which, incidentally, was a rope now to the fourth blind man
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The fifth blind man who'd held the tail was now beside a leg, you see
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So what he thought had been a rope was suddenly a tree
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And all at once the five blind men began to laugh and shout
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And realized that each was right and joyfully stomped about
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"An elephant", they sweetly sang "Is all these things
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And much, much more"
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The sum of which is greater than the parts we'd felt before
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It just depends on where you stand" they said, and then they turned
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To thank the gentle giant for the lesson we had learned
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So off we went, the five blind men and me, out in the wood
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But this time I was following them, as humbly as I could
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For they had blessed me with a gift, a sparkling truth revealed
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Whatever you might think you see
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Depends on where you stand
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And how you feel
Aerosmith - Blind Man
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