| God is love and love is real,
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| but the dead are dancing with the dead
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| and though all that’s charming disappears
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| all things lovely only hurt my head
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| as I gather stones from fields like pearls of water on my fingers’ends
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| and wrap them up in boxes,
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| safe from windows, from things that break,
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| as the night-time shined like day it saw my sorry face,
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| hair a mess but it liked me best that way
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| (Besides, how else could I confess?
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| When I looked down like if to pray,
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| well I was looking down her dress…)
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| Good God, please!
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| Catch for us the foxes in the vineyard — The little foxes.
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| Turn your ear, musician, to silence because they only come out when it’s quiet,
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| their tails brushing over your eyelids
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| Wake up, sleeper, and rise from the dead!
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| Or the fur that they shed will cover your bed in a delicate orange-ish cinnamon
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| red,
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| ah, I don’t need this!
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| I have my loves, I have my doubts.
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| I don’t need this. |