| We watched the trees undressed into something new
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| We were the chimney smoke helpless disappearing from view
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| And I recalled a boy in a porch swing realizing he would die
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| Fear will take a man’s life, fear will take a man’s life
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| I was grasping for a shadow something already in my hand
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| When I lost it in the water reaching out for my own reflection
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| we need something to change, we need something to change
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| You said that man is but a breath hanging by his skin
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| The burning end of a cigarette time will take everything
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| And I recalled a boy ina dark wood stumbling on a precious pearl
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| The way the smoke and air curls, way the smoke and air curls
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| I was grasping for a shadow something already in my hand
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| When I lost it in the water reaching out for my own reflection
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| we need something to change, we need something to change
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| My train will come friends and family will gather round
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| Our grandchildren playing out behind our house
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| Next to our names carved in the side of a tree
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| It’s not what we take it’s what we leave
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| It’s what we leave, It’s what we leave,
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| It’s what we leave, It’s what we leave |