| My exit, unobserved, my homesickness, absurd
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| I said «water,"expecting the word
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| Would satisfy my thirst!
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| Talking all about the second and third
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| When I haven’t understood the first.
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| Jonah, where’s that boat going —
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| Your ship set with eager sails?
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| There’s a swirling storm soon blowing
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| And no use, fishermen, in rowing from a consecrated whale!
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| And just like the clouds they bring a darkness and a hard rain’s gonna fall
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| I felt the crowds bring a loneliness and a hard rain’s gonna fall.
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| She always weighed me down
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| But, afraid I might need her, I dragged her around
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| (It's best to keep close sackcloth and ash in a whitewashed town)
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| She wore that phony smile on her face,
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| I guess like a bandage on a wounded place
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| While I kept the keys to every old lock just in case.
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| Rehearsed indifference tossed aside,
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| Our narrow arms spread wide,
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| «What unseen pen etched eternal things on the hearts of humankind —
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| But never let them in our minds?»
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| The clouds they brught a darkness
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| And a hard rain’s gonna fall
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| And all my laughter ends in emptiness
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| And a hard rain’s gonna fall.
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| My every medicine causes more illness
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| And a hard rain’s gonna fall
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| And until I let you go I didn’t know, you were never mine at all
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| But now I spend my days in ever-increasingly complicated ways
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| Convincing myself of the rightness of each word I say
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| My exit, unfair if unobserved! |
| My exit, unfair if unobserved!
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| Ya sabur, subhannallahi, a-uduhu billah minash-shaitnair-rajim, al-hamdu lillah,
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| bismillahir rahmanir rahim. |