| There is plague at the door
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| It begs to be among us
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| In the ashen dreams of crippled children
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| There is sickness in the soil
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| Nothing grows this side of Eden
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| Nor in the yearning abyss
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| That is all things to men’s hearts
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| Nor in the skeletal tug
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| Of motherhood that curses all with life
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| There is disease upon the air
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| It grasps at the throat of virtue
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| Rosary twist in leather hands
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| And offer prayer for me
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| And I have fought the God of men
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| For my whole life
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| Yet now we sit at the table together
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| Breaking bread and drinking blood wine
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| We spent the smallest hours
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| Staring into the void between sleep and dreams
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| That stretch from the womb to the grave
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| So feel the puritan’s dead hand as it throttles all life
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| So clasp your hands and bend your broken knees
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| For no one else will, and your confessions
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| Of worthless guilt, are not your saving grace
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| And so you seek redemption at the puritan’s hand
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| Is the hell you find here not enough for you?
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| To find your redemption |