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Relient K
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I can smell the death on the sheets
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Covering me
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I can't believe this is the end
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But this is my deathbed
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I lie here alone
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If I close my eyes tonight
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I know I'll be home
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The year was nineteen forty one
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I was eight years old and
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Far, far too young
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To know that the stories
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Of battles and glory
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Was a tale a kind mother
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Made up for her son
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You see
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Dad was a traveling preacher
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Teaching the words of the Teacher
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My mother had sworn he
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Went off to the war
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And died there with honor
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Somewhere on a beach there
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But he left once to never return
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Which taught me that I should unlearn
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Whatever I thought a father should be
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I abandoned that thought
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Like he abandoned me
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By forty seven I was fourteen
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I'd acquired a taste for liquor and nicotine
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I smoked until I threw up
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Yet I still lit 'em up
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For thirty more years
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Like a machine
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So right there you have it
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That one filthy habit
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Is what got me where I am today
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I can smell the death on the sheets
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Covering me
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I can't believe this is the end
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I can hear those sad memories
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Still haunting me
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So many things
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I'd do again
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But this is my deathbed
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I lie here alone
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If I close my eyes tonight
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I know I'll be home
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I got married on my twenty first
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Eight months before my wife would give birth
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It's easier to be sure you love someone
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When her father inquires with the barrel of a gun
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The union was far from harmonious
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No two people could have been more alone than us
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The years would go by and she'd love someone else
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And I realized I hadn't been loved yet myself
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From there it's your typical spiel
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Yeah if life was a highway
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I was drunk at the wheel
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I was seeing the loose ends
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All fall apart
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Yeah I swear I was destined to fail
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And fail from the start
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I bowled about six times a week
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The bottle of Beam kept the memories from me
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The marriage had taken a seven-ten split
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And along with my pride the ex-wife took the kids
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I can smell the death on the sheets
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Covering me
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I can't believe this is the end
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I can hear those sad memories
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Still haunting me
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So many things
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I'd do again
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But this is my deathbed
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I lie here alone
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If I close my eyes tonight
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I know I'll be home
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I was so scared of Jesus
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But He sought me out
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Like the cancer in my lungs
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That's killing me now
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And I've given up hope
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On the days I have left
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But I cling to the hope
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Of my life in the next
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Then Jesus showed up
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Said, "Before we go up
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I thought that we might reminisce
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See one night in your life
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When you turned out the light
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You asked for and prayed for my forgiveness"
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You cried wolf
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The tears they soaked your fur
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The blood dripped from your fangs
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You said, "What have I done?"
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You loved that Lamb
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With every sinful bone
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And there you wept alone
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Your heart was so contrite
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You said, "Jesus, please forgive me of my crimes
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Sanctify this withered heart of mine
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Stay with me until my life is through
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And on that day please take me home with you"
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I can smell the death on the sheets
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Covering me
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I can't believe this is the end
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I can hear You whisper to me,
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"It's time to leave
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You'll never be lonely again"
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But this was my deathbed
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I died there alone
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When I closed my eyes tonight
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You carried me home
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[Jon Foreman of Switchfoot sings, as the voice of Jesus:]
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I am the Way
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Follow Me
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And take My hand
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And I am the Truth
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Embrace Me and you'll understand
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And I am the Light
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And for Me you'll live again
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For I am Love
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I am Love
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I, I am Love
Relient K - Deathbed feat. Jon Foreman (...
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