| for I could speak of many things
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| in oh so many ways
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| but it’s my thoughts flying through the night
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| above the winding cities see them shine
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| For every child without a light, hiding from the cold
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| the dispossessed, the seldom blessed, the weary and the old
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| when the face of every stranger, is a mirror to your soul
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| Sun ain’t gonna rise in the morning.
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| So think before you say there’s no reason for a man to lose his mind.
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| Words of pity fill your ears and many times your eyes it’ll make you blind,
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| you know it makes you blind
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| so many dreams of vague charity they live a season
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| just to fade and die
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| But for every priest without a flock, who once believed in right
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| for the poet with a line who dried up over night
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| For the drunk without a jar, to keep him out of sight
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| Sun ain’t gonna rise in the morning
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| Beyond the clouds of whirling smoke, wheat fields touch the sky
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| shady trees and meadow seas, Autumn winds and August breezes fly
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| Oh you know they fly
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| and it’s not for me to say where or when
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| all this will go and never be again
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| For every frozen optimist, who put his faith in love
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| for the drowning sinner, with his eyes on God above
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| and the old man left behind the queue, without the strength to shove
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| Sun ain’t gonna rise, sun ain’t gonna rise
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| Sun ain’t gonna rise in the morning |