| Oh what’s the first enchanted tear
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| Crystal drop? |
| little ra-ain
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| Then along came. |
| your face and
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| I’ll never be the same again
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| Now you’re a steak knife in the back
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| Selfish cause, complica-ate
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| This labyrinth, the world we make, is one to be reckoned with
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| It’s a sound that I contain
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| No. one breathes. |
| their faame
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| Their lines. |
| me. |
| so in a bank?
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| Lets search for some common ground
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| Well me go so bow chu madame, an ya senorita
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| Have a likkle superheavy up in I ya mixtcha
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| It remain in all your stereo just like a fixtcha
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| When you see us all together what a pretty pictcha
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| They say lay up what we lay a we don’t leap the textcha
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| It come together archive dem scotch money papah
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| Ay, me tek no sticka man a step up
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| So uh no tell um to de wolf sheep on shephard
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| Dat when the night
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| Turns to day
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| And girl and ride
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| Run away
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| The peace so astound that the love you found
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| While searching for common ground
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| Everybody come together hear this sound
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| Open up your ears look at what we found
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| Common ground
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| So gather round
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| Don’t matter if your white, yellow, green or brown
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| Every boy and every girl and in every town
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| Gather round
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| There’s common ground
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| There was a calvary
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| Down in new orleans
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| And when the band would play
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| Their feet went flying
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| And underneath the ponds
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| Bodies were swaying
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| And in each other’s arms
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| Lovers were prayin
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| You may the one for me
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| Love is all around
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| But what I’ve found I’ve been lookin for
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| Searching for common ground
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| Everybody come together hear this sound
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| Open up your ears look at what we found
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| Common ground
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| So gather round
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| Don’t matter if your white and a green or brown
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| Every boy and every girl in every town
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| Gather round
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| There’s common ground |