| In my heart, I can still feel
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| Every turn of the tractor wheel
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| Budded furrows cut across the hillside
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| Over the fields in the sunshine
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| And it hurt, but I still grew
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| With every clumsy punch I threw
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| Up in anger, at the empty summer sky —
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| I saw the world from the underside
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| And when the worm began to turn
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| As it squirmed in the palm of my hand;
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| I began to understand. |
| .
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| Why it is
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| The worm forgives the plough
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| In my heart I can still feel
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| Every turn of the tractor wheel
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| As we cower in the shadow of the plow
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| Chewing us up and spitting us out
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| As we fall our way back down
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| Into the earth and underground
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| I discover that even a little worm
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| Has its ways of taking revenge on the world
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| And when the worm began to turn
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| As it squirmed in the palm of my hand;
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| I began to understand. |
| .
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| Why it is
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| The worm forgives the plough
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| Why it is
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| The worm forgives the plough |