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David Bronson
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I think I finally see just how it happened, took a young boy's open life
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And turned it, twisted it right into something else
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You know there must have been a reason, sort of like falling on a land mine,
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Wakes your mind up, cuts your senses, you wouldn't choose it for yourself
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But strange things happen, unpredicted, mighty time rolls ever forward
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Across the crooked trails of what seems at first such an arbitrary ride
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The things we yearn for, all we need, the things we want, how they make us bleed
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Still I mostly throw it all away
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Kill it, waste it, all my time
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The only precious thing there is
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Exactly equal to this life
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The only gift there ever was
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But no, I know, the things, the ones we fill it with
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Who are they, and why are they the ones
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If my mind could reconcile the things my eyes took in those moments
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Should I take the time or just say goodbye, move on to something else
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Why waste time in this retelling, twisting shape, convincing, selling
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Is my doubt so great I still need to justify it to myself
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And beyond that why debate it, it exists because I said it
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I'm no liar, exaggerator, because I feel it more than you
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And if I stretched it from proportion just to set myself in motion
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A captive mind can be no standard from which we ever take our cue
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Even so I throw it all away
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Kill it, waste it, all my time
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The only precious thing there is
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Exactly equal to this life
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The only gift there ever was
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But no, I know, the things, the ones we fill it with
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Who are they
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And you and I screamed this is how it has to be
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My whole mess outside myself
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But safe in you and yours just as safe in me
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How could it be wrong to give up yourself so freely
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That's the gift we stumbled on but then forgot and fell off
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Just as quickly
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It's what's inside, what's between
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Behind, below, deep down beneath
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A hidden cut it bears its teeth
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It does its job, it swallows whole
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All our dreams of life and living, best-intentioned blood and souls
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Our only want, my deepest goal
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Breaks in pieces and it steals
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And then forgives and finally heals
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It gives us love and lets us feel
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And it's the only thing that lasts, the only constant moving fast
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Moving on, it's moving past
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Brings the one that makes it in, the one that penetrates my skin
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My sacred fit, my holy kin
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It's what's within
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It's how we're tied
David Bronson - Song of Life (Official)
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