| Sometimes the lifeboat to which our hope is tethered
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| Is but a floating feather
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| Blown in zephyrs in the soaking weather
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| The mist and the smoke envelop
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| A mystery, a missed envelope
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| An unopened letter
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| Wrote instead of
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| Letting these emotions
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| Go through the motions, ever
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| Hope is a coping method
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| Is a mechanism
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| Letting us get rid of the foreboding peril
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| Say no to the Devil
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| To the toad in the hole
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| That we know can control
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| On a whole new level
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| Mill wheel turning
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| Fear will turn into cheer
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| Chilled, flowing in vessels
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| How long have we known each other?
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| Would you rather go alone instead of
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| Getting thrown together
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| With a ghost in a lonesome bed
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| I bet it goes through your head, huh?
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| If we won’t keep our head up
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| And we don’t keep ahead
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| I bet we won’t keep our head above the ocean
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| Then and we’ll recede to the seas
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| That are deep below these heavens
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| Knees trembling
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| He sees us… Jesus
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| For a hesitant moment there, I was froze in terror
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| With a phobic tremor
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| That stoic heroics never extinguish
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| Spoken in the most elegant English
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| Flash! | 
| Lightning, fires fade
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| Ash, rising, sky ablaze
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| Some of us die and raise to a higher place
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| Others just lie in wait in a hiding place
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| With a frightened face
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| Eyes agape and gazing vacant
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| Waiting patiently
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| Pacing aimlessly
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| To syncopated beats
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| We need to face the things we hate to see
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| Embrace the things we hate to say we need
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| And that’s hard to do
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| How can we start anew?
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| When it feels like we’re just half-way through
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| The last chapter, the last part, and now we’re starting two
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| But in my heart of hearts I knew
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| That this is what I’ve got to do
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| True. | 
| And when I’m in the zone
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| I’ll never be alone with you
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| You tenderly approach
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| Your presence is a glow
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| Put a hand on my shoulder, friend
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| And hold me, hold me, hold me close
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| Hold me close
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| Hold me close
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| Hold me close
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| Hold me close
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| Hold me close
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| Hold me close |