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Like faithful oxen through the chalk, |
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With dragging tails of history walk. |
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Soon confuse the compass and the cross. |
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Carefully and cursively |
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we fill our traveling diaries with loss. |
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Beneath an angry Bible flood, |
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Did you and I first learn to love. |
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In my father's car we came to know. |
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And shivered in our painted clothes |
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and paired like every animal below. |
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I will carry it with me, oh Lord. |
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And maybe when the bitterness has gone, |
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There'll be sweetness on our tongues once more. |
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Barefoot in a rowing boat, |
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You lose your shoes and freeze your toes. |
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And say I wear my sorrow like a crown. |
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And throw your arms around my head, |
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and see it there in gold and red and brown. |
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As heavy as a history book can be, |
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I will carry it with me, oh Lord. |
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And maybe when the bitterness has gone, |
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There'll be sweetness on our tongues once more. |
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We'll soon forget our parents' names, |
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Like dogs will drive the wolves away. |
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And weep with fingertips opposed, |
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Like a church where nobody congregates. |
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But sweetness sings in the pasture, |
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We throw ourselves on the mercy of the earth. |
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If sand and salt have the answer, |
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Then the act itself will be louder than the word. |
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And I'll be on your side |
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And I'll be on your side |
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And I'll be on your side |
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But sweetness sings in the pasture, |
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We throw ourselves on the mercy of the earth. |
| [04:29.76] |
If sand and salt have the answer, |
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Then the act itself will be louder than the word. |
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And I'll be on your side |
