| The light should shine through your eyes
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| The light should be spoken through your words
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| The light should be felt in your deeds
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| That is the true purpose of our being on this Earth
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| To uncover the light and let it shine brighter and brighter
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| I wish that we could clip puppet strings, among other things
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| And walk hand in hand smiling and suffering
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| I know a thing or two about the sins love redeems
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| And what it means to play kings and queens in each other’s dreams
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| A pyrite crown, a killer whale clavicle;
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| A phoenix wishbone and shell casings from the Alamo
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| All powerful, all talk
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| Hiding from the prying eyes that the walls got
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| Watchin' while the ball drops
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| I’m scared of life
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| Erudite parasites spray pesticides and
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| pave paradise
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| Joni Mitchell
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| never lies
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| String pullers never tell the truth
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| They enterprise and fabricate a world view to sell the youth
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| But when you smile I forget about the mess we made, and life acquires depth
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| through the trials of yesterday
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| I met you at a show hiding out behind a lens, basking in your afterglow
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| smashing time and time again
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| The silent hymns of lambs laying in the lion’s den are channeled from a higher
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| plane and planted in the minds of men
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| You and I could bend the bars back on iron gates, clip puppet strings and crawl
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| together through the fireplace
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| I need to trace the contours of a demon’s face
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| I need the space to say my piece before I leave this place
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| I need to make the same poundcake Anita bakes and
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| reawake from the grave to raise Kundalini snakes
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| The fear of feeling shame’s crippling
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| You push me in the right direcion, we suffer countless life lessons
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| Love above everything’s the essence
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| The revelation, the crown jewel of every earth angel’s education
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| I’m wide awake now I see it so clear
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| The sound of wedding bells is like music to my ears
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| The marriage of heaven and hell
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| the sacred veil of tears
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| The conviction that a wish could shatter this house of mirrors |